As an aside, their Twitter account mentions that it was an observatory in Australia that was relaying the signals from Mars: http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/s

As an aside, their Twitter account mentions that it was an observatory in Australia that was relaying the signals from Mars: http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232337630711382017 http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232337630711382017 As it happens, it was an Australian observatory that relayed the first video of Armstrong walking on the moon. There was a fun movie made (made by the D-Generation/Working Dog guys) based on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish