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Phoenix has landed!

ElkGroveDan View Member Profile	May 25 2008, 11:54 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197	Successful touchdown -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.

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antipode View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:28 AM Post #151
Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 1-October 06 Member No.: 1206	No idea what the azimuth of 334 is but the twin bumps almost look like a crater on the horizon. Extreme enlargement of the white feature brings lots of artifacting but it sure looks odd - the backshell I guess??? P

algorimancer View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:31 AM Post #152
Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285	QUOTE (Ant103 @ May 25 2008, 08:26 PM) ...Because it's not very simple to distinguish camera, filters, etc. Hopefully there will be a place to access the raw images... that flash interface is pretty awful. Half the time (more?) I click on an image and get nothing. I suppose this could be due to the heavy usage at the moment. Really need images with useful titles.

Gonzz View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:32 AM Post #153
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 22-July 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 445	Now that we are safe on Mars, and the late night quietly lingers, this is the music that comes to my mind, as I watch these pictures from this desolate beautiful barren landscape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHTFmJk7fH0 A nice lullaby for all of us that, now the images have arrived, are going to bed for a well deserved rest Sleep well Pheonix

SpaceListener View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:33 AM Post #154
Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299	QUOTE (algorimancer @ May 25 2008, 09:31 PM) Hopefully there will be a place to access the raw images... that flash interface is pretty awful. Half the time (more?) I click on an image and get nothing. I suppose this could be due to the heavy usage at the moment. Really need images with useful titles. The same to me. The flash copy only works when the picture has enough illumination. The ones dark, aren't showed up.

Juramike View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:33 AM Post #155
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345	Absolutely beautiful! It looks like the terrain they landed in is nice and uniform. Representatives of all the elements that they see (so far) stretching out to the horizon ad infinitum should oughta be within the work volume. Congratulations for a perfect landing, and massive thanks for getting the images put up on the web so quickly! It's a total rush to have the near instant gratification of EDL and the first pictues post-landing within a few hours. Perfect! -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/

Eric Hartwell View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:34 AM Post #156
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 29-June 07 From: Toronto Member No.: 2601	Those images that look mostly black with a tiny bit of white - auto mosaics! How about that.

ToSeek View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:35 AM Post #157
Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 5-May 04 Member No.: 74	QUOTE (Eric Hartwell @ May 25 2008, 09:34 PM) Those images that look mostly black with a tiny bit of white - auto mosaics! How about that. Yeah, except the server's having problems now that people are trying to download them!

imipak View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:35 AM Post #158
Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617	QUOTE (Stu @ May 26 2008, 02:27 AM) [attachment=14341:3D_1.JPG] Fascinating and spectacular. Look at the texture of the pyramid shaped rock at half-way up to the left of the pad. Are those tiny pyramid shapes on the upper, sunlit plane part of the surface of the rock, or fragments that have frozen to the parent? If the former, that'll be what CO2 frost exfoliation looks like, will it? -------------------- -- Viva software libre!

antipode View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:37 AM Post #159
Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 1-October 06 Member No.: 1206	Had the nutty idea that that white thing might be penitent ice - but thats probably very silly so I'll shut up and enjoy the view. A quiet landscape FULL of interest, and probably surprises when we get a 360 pan! Congrats to all! p

May 26 2008, 02:46 AM

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Very very very very very very very approximative false color pic from 2 pic (IR and blue filters?).

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May 26 2008, 02:49 AM

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And a more "natural" touss tous pic :

So, time to go bed

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tuvas View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:53 AM Post #162
Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062	You might look at the MRO pictures of the area for colors. All of the phoenix landing pictures look pretty much the same, and there are plenty of color images.

mhoward View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:55 AM Post #163
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	QUOTE (algorimancer @ May 25 2008, 07:31 PM) Really need images with useful titles. Well there's sort of a start here - at least the images have the correct filenames. Unfortunately they seem to be following the Cassini model for their web-based image releases, technically speaking. But let's not complain (yet), it's a magic night.

Shaka View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 02:57 AM Post #164
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618	QUOTE (SpaceListener @ May 25 2008, 04:21 PM) Otherwise you can save them from http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/images/lg_338.jpg O.K. Put the peanuts back in the cupboard, and let's do science! This surface has accumulated a lot of rubble. It's poorly sorted and angular. I assume most of it is distal impact ejecta (where is the nearest young crater?), with a small proportion of meteorites. This probably wouldn't have landed here overnight. Ergo, this is not a very young surface. The rubble reminds me of the exposures north of Victoria Crater down in the spaces between dunes. So what's happening here? Rockhounds? Edit: So does Alan get credit for the first UMSF processed image (the 3D) from Phoenix Station? Bravo! -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!

ToSeek View Member Profile	May 26 2008, 03:00 AM Post #165
Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 5-May 04 Member No.: 74	The landing site location is being reported (per Emily) as 68.22 north, 234.3 east, and they're calling it long, but it seems to be almost smack dab in the middle of the landing ellipse in Emily's map.