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 May 9 2008, 08:43 PM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 21-November 06 From: JPL Member No.: 1381  |
Don't know if you've noticed, but we posted the Phoenix landing press kit. You can find it here as the main item on this page (www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix . If it's not the top item anymore, look for it on the left side of the screen).
Also, TCM 4 has been cancelled. That story is also posted on the same page. For now, it looks like we're right on target! |
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May 9 2008, 08:47 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Thank's for the heads-up Veronica
 "The NASA TV Media Channel will carry a feed with no commentary or interviews, beginning at 3 p.m. PDT (6 p.m. EDT). The NASA TV Public Channel will carry a feed with some commentary and interviews, beginning at 3:30 p.m. PDT (6:30 p.m. EDT). Both feeds will continue through 5 p.m. or later PDT (8 p.m. or later EDT)." That's especially good news !! Doug |
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May 9 2008, 08:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Thanks for the information. I was looking forward to the press kit.
-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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May 10 2008, 08:13 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
For anyone putting together Outreach material for a Phoenix-based presentation, there's a gorgeous pic of Mars shining in the sky as today's Astronomy Picture of the Day...
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May 12 2008, 03:36 PM
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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 |
QUOTE (vmcgregor @ May 9 2008, 10:43 PM)  Don't know if you've noticed, but we posted the Phoenix landing press kit. You can find it here as the main item on this page (www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix . If it's not the top item anymore, look for it on the left side of the screen). Also, TCM 4 has been cancelled. That story is also posted on the same page. For now, it looks like we're right on target! The file seams somehow corrupted : here is another location for the file :http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html -------------------- |
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May 12 2008, 03:40 PM
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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 |
BTW, Ustrax, there's a nice picture on the presskit of what Phoenix will see when she'll have landed. Do they compete ?
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May 12 2008, 05:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
QUOTE (climber @ May 12 2008, 10:40 AM) ...there's a nice picture on the presskit of what Phoenix will see when she'll have landed. That hilly terrain doesn't look like a very realistic representation of what is expected. |
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May 12 2008, 09:03 PM
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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 |
QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 12 2008, 07:06 PM) That hilly terrain doesn't look like a very realistic representation of what is expected. I agree but... who would had bet a quater on Oppy's first view? -------------------- |
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May 13 2008, 08:22 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Maybe if we had HiRise before oppy arrived...
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May 13 2008, 09:32 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (climber @ May 12 2008, 04:40 PM) BTW, Ustrax, there's a nice picture on the presskit of what Phoenix will see when she'll have landed. Do they compete ? Not that I'm aware of...but you have 5 days to do so...  -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 13 2008, 08:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Today's press conference about Phoenix is on again on NASA-TV at the moment (20:00 UTC). Even the smaller Mars landers seem to attract a lot of interest, there were plenty of questions from the media.
-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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May 13 2008, 08:08 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hey -- we get to see tiny little peces of Mars under an atomic force microscope on this flight. That's enough to get most any space geek out there excited!
-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 13 2008, 08:22 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Fascinating briefing, I heard it the first time, and was very impressed by the honesty and enthusiasm of the panel members, but it brought home to me that this is definitely going to be a harder mission to "sell" and promote Outreach-wise than the MERs. I'm beginning to realise it might be quite a challenge (but that's ok!
). The landing site - from what they've said at today's briefing - will be pretty flat and featureless (=SAFE), with maybe just a bare handful of rocks on view, so there'll be no jaw-dropping pictures to compete with the amazing MER panoramas we've all enjoyed seeing and sharing; the focus is on hard science with this mission, lots of graphs and charts and data, and the results will take a lot of careful explaining. I'm sure the JPL guys and gals will be working hard to create and make available images and pictures that will translate this hard science into information that can be shared with and understood by people who haven't got a good knowledge of this kind of thing.
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May 13 2008, 08:34 PM
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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 |
  Doug, are we going to have a "arm" one when Phoenix will be safely on the ground ? -------------------- |
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May 14 2008, 05:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"...so there'll be no jaw-dropping pictures..."
We can always hope for a martian Reindeer to wander past.... or just a lemming or two. Oh.. that's not a lemming, that's a reporter.... Oh... paris hilton just drove past... that's why the lemmings all left. |
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