For those craving more Mars video with a pop culture twist, you can have rover footage narrated by . Yes. And here's from the Curiosity album, of course.

Mars Science Laboratory's landing on Mars is the culmination of eight years of planning, designing, building, testing, and launching. Green predicts the landing sequence will be a "white-knuckle experience to say the least."

What does a successful landing mean? Hopefully more exciting planetary exploration missions, and even ones where robots collect Martian rocks and launch them back to Earth in the coming decades. Regardless of if Curiosity successfully starts roving on Mars come Monday morning, according to Green, "for Curiosity and planetary science on August 6th, one way or another, our world will not be the same."

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