Phoenix Lander nearing Mars!

[odin]

Mission website.

Live feed.

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 :|.

[bloodline]

odin wrote:
Mission website.

Live feed.

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 :-)

[KThunder]

cool :-)

[bloodline]

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...

[Hans_]

bloodline wrote:

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

[motorollin]

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