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 May 21 2008, 04:04 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
QUOTE (djellison @ May 21 2008, 04:39 PM)  Maybe Stu's thinking of the Beagle 2 Yahoo Group I had at the time.Doug Yep, that's the one. I KNEW I wasn't going through all that alone! 
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May 21 2008, 04:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Perhaps it's time to resurrect this thread: How Did You Find Us?
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May 21 2008, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ May 21 2008, 05:30 PM) Feb 8th 2004 What's that, about sol 35A/15B? Was the 'yellow forum' up and running then? ...and my 50th birthday ! -------------------- |
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May 22 2008, 12:13 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yep, gonna be a peanut-eatin' fool Sunday afternoon (PDT); as a bonus, they do go exceedingly well with beer!
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May 22 2008, 06:56 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
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What kind of peanuts?! Shelled, unshelled? Spanish? Honey roasted? Chocolate covered! Aggh! </panic> -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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May 22 2008, 07:09 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I'll be going down the shelled salted variety.
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May 22 2008, 07:10 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Mine will likely be the honey-roasted variety.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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May 22 2008, 07:20 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I can't STAND frakking peanuts. Almost as bad as liquorice. Under the rules, what is the bare minimum number of peanuts I can eat without poking luck in the eye with a sharp stick?
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May 22 2008, 07:32 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Two.
One is 'peanut'. You have to eat good luck peanuts Eat two, and you're set. Doug |
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May 22 2008, 07:36 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
That's a relief, I had visions of having to sit here chomping on the ******* things all the way through EDL. If that had been the case my first view of the martian arctic would have been glimpsed through a mess of spit and peanut bits, after barfing up all over my monitor...
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May 22 2008, 07:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Dry roasted, with a celabratory drink to wash them down when the landings confirmed!
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May 22 2008, 10:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 26-June 04 From: Austria Member No.: 89 |
ESA sends EDL transmission about an hour after landing:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM3ZB1YUFF_index_0.html Did Phoenix also send via another orbiter ( MRO) during descent and more "live" ?? Is direct transmission to large earth radio telecopes possible ? Robert |
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May 22 2008, 11:05 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Phoenix will send data via UHF that will get received by MRO, Mars Odyssey and Mars Express. Mars Odyssey will be relaying the data back live, in real time, to JPL. The other two will be replaying it back later to make sure they've got all of it
The Green Bank ( http://www.gb.nrao.edu/ ) radio observatory will listen for Phoenix in real time - but the signal will not be strong enough to get data - just strong enough to identify the signal and track the doppler shift. Doug |
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May 23 2008, 03:52 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 5-October 06 Member No.: 1227 |
When phoenix lands will it take pictures/panorama before deploying the camera to full height?
Doing so could be usefull because One can make a large baseline stereo pair between the pre-mast-extented and post-mast-extended pictures. This would create a much larger base-line paralax than can be attained between left/right eye pairs. Since this isn't a rover, there will be no other oportunity to create large base line stereo. Once the camera is deployed I am sure there is no way to go back to the low/stowed position. I made large base line stereo pictures in just this way from pre/post camera mast deploy pictures from Mars Pathfinder. (note, the images obviously have to be viewed 90 degrees rotated since the large base line is as if you were holding your head sideways.) (Also taking pre-mast deploy pictures can give a perspective of the instrument deck and how it survived the landing,etc that can never be attained again after mast extension) |
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May 23 2008, 05:45 AM
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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 |
As what said before, we'll need a ONE topic only for Phoenix. Doug said that it'll be done shortly before EDL.
The reason for this is : I'm looking for the link to whre the Nasa press conferences are posted when finished that was posted here a few days ago and I cannot find again. BTW, I didn't evn know in which theard to post this question ! Anybody can help me please ? Thanks -------------------- |
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