It's a Godawful Small Affair

Actually it's pretty big. If it works. The new Mars rover, Curiosity, is landing tonight/tomorrow.

This is huge. Bigger than huge. Depending upon it's findings, Curiosity could redefine life on this planet. This could very well be the biggest discovery in the history of the human race. Or it could a precursor to a real-life version of DOOM/Mass Effect. Highly unlikely, though.

We're not expecting to find life on Mars, only evidence of it having once existing. It may also discover that life in our solar system began on Mars - not Earth.

Links to watch it live are here.

And because I like the series, here's a trailer to the BBC's Life On Mars.

And here is a Horizon special on the actual landing. Just gotta do some jiggery-pokery to get it to play.