Photo gallery of Mars landing scenes, on both planets

The Atlantic has a doublewide photo gallery of Associated Press photos from the night of the Mars Landing. I'm in this shot (#13). The whole gallery is a great reminder of the range of emotions and excitement you feel when you're witnessing one of these historic space events. I will never forget this night, as long as I live! And I know I'm not alone in that. If you want to know what joy looks like, click onward.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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retepslluerb

I don’t get it. NBC got flack for time-shifting the Olympics, Iran and Saudi Arabia the same during the soccer championship but people cheer, when NASA broadcasts the landing with a 14 minutes window!
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  You’re joking, right? There’s a 14 minute delay in signal return from Mars.
  - Timothy Krause
    
    That’s what they want you to believe.
    
    /joke, great happy face in #13, must have been an incredible atmosphere.
  - retepslluerb
    
    Humbug! They obviously had something to hide.
    
    Also, Mars is in space! How can there be grabity in space?!?
    
    Plus, I want to enroll in Louisiana.
    - http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
      
      I bet you don’t believe in set theory, either.
      - retepslluerb
        
        On the contrary. I firmly subscribe to the theory that not scarifying to Set leads to storms and the snake-God Apophis killing Ra!
      - http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
        
        I would be inclined to place set theory in the set of all groundless and fallacious theories, yes. But can the set of all theories regarding sets be both groundless AND contained in a set (that contains itself)? You see where the problems arise? Better to abandon this specious quicksand altogether.
    - pizzicato
      
      I blame Jebus, he made the world his way, we just live in it!
bobbcorr

I’m still stewing over how long it takes starlight to reach our planet. Talk about signal delay.
- retepslluerb
  
  Don’t think of it as signal delay. Think of it as reality happening a light speed.
Brie

I hope NASA also equipped Curiosity with Sees’ Candies and Famous Amos cookies, you know just in case…..”just in case.”
aj

Fantastic. And I noticed the wristband too – nicely done.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  UCK CA!
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

Those expressions are the perfect antidote to the weird “does anyone care about Mars” trolls that seem to pop up on occasion.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Sadly I couldn’t find anyone who was even aware of this
  - retepslluerb
    
    Aware of what?
http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33

Xeni- can I say your hair is looking adorable like that…. Glad to see it’s growing back. Hope you are doing well!
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

So awesome to see so much joy and optimism in those faces. Quite a telling contrast to the post about the public schools teaching about dragons and such. Go Curiosity!!
MarcVader

“Wild thing, you make my heart sing!” ;) Such a cool picture, Xeni.
auntialias

Awesome set of images. I videoed the NASA TV feed (with audio of crowd reactions) at 1 of the two JPL off-lab Curiosity landing events (for JPL/Curiosity staff and families+friends). I finally watched it last night, and am considering editing it a bit toward the weekend and uploading so you can see the jubilation at Pasadena City College as it happened. (Boyfriend worked on the landing radar).