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Title: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: odin on May 26, 2008, 12:05:58 AM

Mission website. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html)

Live feed. (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)

There should be touchdown confirmation at 02:10 CEST! (i.e. in one hour from now). The lander is headed towards the northern polar region of Mars to look for conditions suitable for life and water.

Unfortunately I have to get some sleep :|.

Title: Re: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: bloodline on May 26, 2008, 12:54:26 AM

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odin wrote:
Mission website. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html)

Live feed. (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)

There should be touchdown confirmation at 02:10 CEST! (i.e. in one hour from now). The lander is headed towards the northern polar region of Mars to look for conditions suitable for life and water.

Unfortunately I have to get some sleep :|.

It's just Landed :-)

Title: Re: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: KThunder on May 26, 2008, 12:55:26 PM

cool :-)

Title: Re: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: bloodline on May 26, 2008, 01:37:18 PM

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KThunder wrote:
cool :-)

I watched the live feed from NASA as it happened... Not very interesting really, just a lot of Fat blokes in Blue polo tops hugging and cheering... :-)

I suppose we have to remember that everything we get back from the probe actually happened 15 minutes in the past... a little weird to think about at first...

Title: Re: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: Hans_ on May 26, 2008, 10:07:28 PM

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bloodline wrote:

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KThunder wrote:
cool :-)

I watched the live feed from NASA as it happened... Not very interesting really, just a lot of Fat blokes in Blue polo tops hugging and cheering... :-)

I suppose we have to remember that everything we get back from the probe actually happened 15 minutes in the past... a little weird to think about at first...

Yeah. Next time, can someone please strap a video camera to a Mars satellite so that we can see some real action. Make some use of the big screen that mission control has. I wonder how hard a live video feed from Mars would be.

Hans

Title: Re: Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!
Post by: motorollin on May 26, 2008, 10:11:00 PM

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bloodline wrote:
I watched the live feed from NASA as it happened... Not very interesting really, just a lot of Fat blokes in Blue polo tops hugging and cheering... :-)

Do they really do that? I thought it was just Hollywood bollox :lol:

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moto