Phoenix Lander Live coverage

Forgive me if in the wrong section.

The new mars lander coverage begins about 6:30pm eastern tonight. Just thought some of you would like to know.

Here is the link www.nasa.gov...

Cheers for the link

There is a space section - go to the board tab and it's near the bottom of the page

Weird, seem to be having trouble getting it to stream on my browser! Any suggestions people?

Well, looks like they got a textbook landing from Pheonix!! Need to wait an hour and a half for the freshest pictures from Mars though!

yes it made it ! very cool stuff....

amazing how they had all the different satelites watching and helping.

well i wonder what the first pictures will look like ?...

www.metacafe.com...
Mars Landing Video

reply to post by easynow


I thought I heard them say at the press conference yeaterday that the first photos will be of the solar panel, to confim that they were properly deployed. However the bulk of the photos will not be uplinked from the lander to earth until tomorrow (something like noon or 1:00 PM GMT, 7:00 to 8:00 AM U.S. Eatern time).

I'm not sure why the delay, but I think it has something to do with the solar panels needing to recharge the lander's batteries before the photos are transmitted to Earth.

reply to post by Soylent Green Is People



well thanks for that info...

i was wondering how long it might be before we see a pic. cant wait.

did anyone see the sat tv coverage from NASA?
it was epic, watching the techy peanut hounds in mission team shirts hover over their terminals, all showing calm side, then get twitchy as the EDL approaches...

ANYway, reason for my post is , IF YOU SAW the sat tv coverage from NASA,
who is that strikingly attractive brunette human female "manning" the left seat of the Earth Loop ????? console...

she must work at JPL long time to have a console seat (for the landing!), neh?

n e way, she is cute. one intelligent hottie.

TOUCHDOWN!! It just laned safely!!!! Awesome!!!!