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"Curiosity Rover
@MarsCuriosity
I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL "
That got kinky fast. I wonder how Gale feels about this?
Press conference starting…
Can we do that anyway?
Damn that was exciting, was watching at work on my phone. Top job by the NASA boffins.
I thought he was going to say “Live long and prosper” 
HAH! They’re running Windows XP at the news conference.
Guess not all the PCs are Macs, with that Windows XP logo screen-saver on the screen.
Whooooo!!! TOTALLY freaking awesome!
When do we get some soil results??
It could be several weeks, the NASA site said they were going to be doing some shake down maneuvers and going cautiously. As well, there probably is a line up of folks wanting stuff done.
Declan
Indeed it would 
Thanks! I’m basically too excited to sleep now, after that amazing ride. Seems it couldn’t have turned out better. There’s so much ahead for the mission now… So thrilled 
There was a question above about descent pictures. We should have pictures from MARDI (the decent imager) from the time the heat shield was jettisoned to touchdown; those are hopefully to be delivered in the next little while. There was a planned attempt to capture the spacecraft during descent with the camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; we’ll see how that turned out.
Safely on the surface! So excited. Big congrats and thanks to the EDL engineering team.
I need to go try to get some sleep.
Glad they landed safely. Good job!!!
Watching the livestream here: http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL
Someone asked how long Curiosity could last on Mars, and one of the scientists answered “there are no perishable resources on board”, propably meaning that it’s reliant on solar power. However, isn’t this baby at least partly nuclear? It’s going to hold out well, but that’s not going to last forever.
(Also; short mention was made of Opportunity, an earlier rover that is still active after 8 freaking years. That stuff is amazing.)
The rover gets all its power from a radioisotope thermoelectirc generator. No solar at all. That power source could last a good many years (without getting too specific). Prime mission is one Mars year.
What a brilliant achievement - well done NASA!
Although hoping for the best outcome, the complexity of the landing procedure for this mission meant I never really managed to suppress the fear that some tiny detail would cause it to fail. This is amazing!
(In case anyone didn’t know, that’s a riff on Will Wheaton’s usual tweets after landing at airports in various places.)
I was having beer and LPs at my friend’s house, but I made everyone watch the landing live. Super cool! 
Heh. This was retweeted by Wheaton: Totally not 'shopped pics from Mars.
Reference?
This is awesome. We successfully landed a mobile, nuclear-powered laser cannon on Mars. The Martians don’t stand a chance.
U-Verse carries the NASA channel, so that’s what I used.