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Successful touchdown
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Some peanuts left, anybody ?
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thank you Mars for letting this one pass through..
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
We need an emoticon for tears of joy...wow, just wow is all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Successful touchdown Absolutely awesome stuff, right by the book! Did I hear correctly they're saying a quarter of a degree tilt? ![]() -------------------- |
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yes, 1/4 degree
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Gonna go ahead and call that "flat", then.....
![]() -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
Phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never doubted it for a second! ![]() -------------------- |
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Newbie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 15-February 05 From: France Member No.: 169 ![]() |
That was simply amazing, my first live landing on another planet
![]() ![]() Those last seconds were scary, it went so fast i thought it was going too fast ! That was beautiful ![]() Edit : no peanuts here, but i'm eating a Mars bar to celebrate this ! ![]() |
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I suspect the last 100m down were a little longer than in the EDL simulation, isn it ?
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
I hear ya...I might have to make an appointment with a proctologist tomorrow...
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259 (!!!) online at UMSF
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273 Visitors now at UMSF
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God, can't believe it! I'm almost in tears!
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Perfectly aligned East-West as well! Perfect!!!
Bed time for me, don't look at the pics till I get back in the morning! ![]() James -------------------- |
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WOW! Im so happy. Drinking a beer to touchdown!
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Me too. Did I say 55%? Must have been a typo. I meant 100%. ![]() Rui and I won the poll ![]() ![]() -------------------- |
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Perfectly aligned East-West as well! Perfect!!! Bed time for me, don't look at the pics till I get back in the morning! ![]() James Bed time for me too in an hour or two - that is, if I'm able to fall to sleep. Will probably have to wake up in the middle of the night to check for any images ![]() |
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
So glad it's afternoon here...don't think my pulse rate's gonna go down for a few hours yet...man!!!!!!
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Rui and I won the poll ![]() ![]() Never doubted it although I wiiwiied a lot... ![]() A Fantastic time to be Alive!!! Play the EPIC!!! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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"Solar arrays open" is listed as occurring at 00:06:33 ERT (UTC). Does anyone remember when confirmation that this worked is due?
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Completely flat only landing site but still don't know how are they arounds!!!
Wait for few minutes for a possible transmission of pictures. The solar panels will deploy a little after the touchdown. This pause allows the dust kicked up during the landing to settle and not collect on the arrays. |
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It landed at a 1/4 degree tilt
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 ![]() |
Peter is talking about extended mission! Mood is high, very high.
What a thing it was to share this with you all. Edited : a big thanks to administrators an a thought for Emily having her server down. I hope you enjoyed the landing anyway -------------------- |
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Wonderful. Congratulations to the Phoenix team for bringing Mars closer to us
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Wish they'd give us some comments from Rob Manning.
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Amazing how that tension and anxiety quite literally drains away when you hear "TOUCHDOWN"
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 ![]() |
Someone remind me now, when can we possibly expect images?
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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"Solar arrays open" is listed as occurring at 00:06:33 ERT (UTC). Does anyone remember when confirmation that this worked is due? My guess would be during the Mars Odyssey relay that begins about 01:43UTC.... -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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What a glorious night !
Shall we get solar panel confirmation any minute now ? |
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Someone remind me now, when can we possibly expect images? Little shy of 90 min from now, Dan. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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I believe it and I am in tears.... happens everytime...
WOW... those last few minutes went like seconds!!!!! to me... could hardly keep up on my checklist.... Can't wait for those first thumbnail pics.... remember MER??? This should be very flat (so few rocks, Doug????? ![]() now for that shot of Jack... CHEERS!!!!! Craig |
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Post landing poll delayed 10 minutes.
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I second climber's comments - kudos to the UMSF team for letting us share this! The site worked smoothly right through landing. And thanks to dmuller for the great simulation.
Oh yeah, and, according to my formula, Mars currently occupies 180 degrees from the viewpoint of Phoenix! ![]() |
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
Fantastic evening everyone, just fantastic... and what a BRILLIANT way of experiencing it with everyone here!
No WAY I'm going to bed before seeing those first pictures... ![]() according to my formula, Mars currently occupies 180 degrees from the viewpoint of Phoenix! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() -------------------- |
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Wish they'd give us some comments from Rob Manning. TTT This is an unMANNINGspaceflight -------------------- |
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And next time... a completely new system for powered descent... SKYCRANE
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except for the RADs on on pathfinder and MER
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Yes - I can attest to the 32 year time span, having been at JPL for the Viking 2 landing...
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This give good mood for skycrane.
1- they'll do a lot of studies since this will be THE futur landing system 2- Only the last meters will change as compared to full powered descent -------------------- |
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Congrats to the Phoenix team!Great job guys!
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Yes - I can attest to the 32 year time span, having been at JPL for the Viking 2 landing... And I remember following the Viking mission as a child. No live coverage back then, at least not where I live. Now I get to see everything live. How things have changed... |
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I had to switched from Discovery Channel to my computer to watch NASA TV to rid myself of their commentary! A lot more exciting on NASA TV!
I'm still quite emotional. Landing on an alien world does that to the soul. |
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Woohoo! Wonderful! Can't believe how happy these moments are.
Has somebody already put the last few minutes on youtube so we can relive those wonderful moments of telemetry-bliss! -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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I'm working late tonight at the moment, deadline next morning, so it's perfect for waiting for those first few pics
![]() The first views from an alien landscape, so incredibly far and yet now so close Very emotional landing, specially doing it live here with all of you. Many Congrats for the Pheonix team, thanks so much for sharing your vision with all of us. Spirit and Oppy have company! |
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Shall we get solar panel confirmation any minute now ? Maybe during the checkoff in five minutes power production will indicate the state of the panels. Don't know if it will be clearly stated at that time, but surely the first pictures to come down in a little over an hour will show the panels in all their glory! |
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Emily has taken her laptop into the press briefing - see her Ustream. Sounding good.
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I recorded the NASA TV windows media stream during EDL. About 70 MB. I'm trying to upload on youtube...
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And I remember following the Viking mission as a child. No live coverage back then I think my two quickest streams of information were National Geographic and hardcover books. But by Pioneer Venus I'd started to make use of the small-town newspaper. And after Voyager at Jupiter, Science News. Galileo's arrival was when I joined the world of "real time". Seems like we're at the end of that evolution now. We could only cut seconds off. |
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Someone please add a link to Emily's Ustream, can't get through to Planetary Society blog
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This is an unMANNINGspaceflight My mistake. An off-hand comment by Doug led me to think that Rob was part of the Phoenix EDL team, but maybe he was just part of a review panel. But Rob always has something interesting to say. >>I'm not giving Rob the questions till after Phoenix is away smile.gif >>I'm not going to get the blame if Phoenix has EDL issues |
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-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Thanks!!
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Link to Emily's ustream, PM are live there
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This is Emily's best ever - an informal press briefing, look how relaxed those guys are.
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Everything looks nominal. Only parachutte deployed 7 second late which support we'll have landed long.
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Venting HAS taken place !
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HI Emily!
Love those updates! |
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UMSF has been abandoned
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Not quite, Sir, not quite
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UMSF has been abandoned ![]() No, it hasn't, everyone's just flipping between about ten diff sites ![]() -------------------- |
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Ustream was cool, thanks Emily !
I have to be at work in 4 hours ... mmm.. Should I stay or should I go ? (to sleep, that is) :-) |
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Trying to catch the comments in mission control.... Parachute deploy 7 seconds late.... they were a little long on landing... helium venting was succwessful... that is what I have gotten so far.... Craig |
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Are there any GOOD streaming sites (any commentary or LIVE interviews ) the more windows I got open the better!
I got 5 open now! |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 ![]() |
They've retreived data and they are processing BUT I didn't get what they are talking about
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everyone's just flipping between about ten diff sites ![]() The s:n ratio - or rather the signal:troll/griefer ratio - here, vs ustream, vs IRC was interesting. -------------------- --
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When is MRO likely to return the image obtained during the descent? I guess it's not really a high priority right now?
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Emily said MRO will attempt to get a picture of Phoenix tomorrow! We should have one on friday if not succesfull. Whoua
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Does anyone know if NASA TV/PAO is switching over to surface operations at UA?
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UH OH... that nervousness is starting to return... lets hope all the POST landing events have been completed successfully.
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NASA TV Live coverage is back
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Nasa TV starting up again - but they can't have pics yet.
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Peter Smith is on Live now on NASA TV
he is talking surface operations "They are ready to go. We will analyze from surface down to ice layer"" First few hours are all preprogrammed. We willl take pictures of solar arrays first. they lander foot . then lander horizon" New Data/Images expected in a few minutes |
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Looks like they are going to cover surface ops from EDL/JPL. At least for the first pictures which is all PAO will cover.
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Did anyone catch the preliminary lat/lon they just said on NasaTV?
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I wondering whether Rui survive the landing! He's nowhere to be seen.
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Did anyone catch the preliminary lat/lon they just said on NasaTV? Spaceflight Now is reporting "68.22 degrees latitude and 234.3 degrees longitude". |
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The landing point appears to be 68.22 degrees latitude and 234.3 degrees longitude.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/status.html |
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Waiting downlink
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I wondering whether Rui survive the landing! He's nowhere to be seen. Finally hugged the wrong guy. ![]() -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Odissey is transmiting data
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WOW I've never seen this many people here before! What a great night! I was actually with my family during landing 'cuz we were having a birthday party. I was watching live on the science channel when at T-5 minutes to landing my grandma was like "ok time for cake! *clicks TV off*" I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!". I don't think I've ever ran for the TV remote so fast in my life!
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Power positive so the solar arrays appear to have deployed!
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1st picture down. solar array deployed !!
lander leg , plus horizon too wow !!! |
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PICTURE!!!!!!!
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Did I see a solar panel image?
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Wow, that's flat!
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Holy cow look at those pictures! Doug was right, (except for the small rocks)!!!
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I just saw a picture of the foot of the landing craft.
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"So few rocks" (as far as I can tell from the images on NASA TV).
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-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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