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Is anybody following the Phoenix probe landing at Mar's North Pole this evening? As of 7:30 pm EST, it is on schedule to land and begin it's investigation into whether any primitive life ever existed in the permafrost.
There's live coverage on cable's The Science Channel, if you want to follow along. |
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It is about time someone besides me got probed.
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7 min of hell!
I almost forgot> Thanks for the reminder 
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We are in the 16 minute delay right now. The thing has actually already either touched down or put a pretty decent hole in the surface of Mars...haha
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****, I missed it!!
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It is about time someone besides me got probed.
You're thinking of the Uranus probe... |
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****, I missed it!!
You didn't miss anything. It's still 7 minutes till they know. The countdown is on CNN right now. |
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Edited by
Fanta46
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Sun 05/25/08 04:47 PM
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We are in the 16 minute delay right now. The thing has actually already either touched down or put a pretty decent hole in the surface of Mars...haha That sucks..........:
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It is about time someone besides me got probed.
You're thinking of the Uranus probe... 
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Wait wait, it is 7 minutes to touchdown. I'm confused. They keep reporting different things. Now they are saying this happened 16 minutes ago. Ahhh!!!
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Okay, first pictures to be downlinked from Mars at 9:43PM, if it doesn't crash.
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Parachute did deploy! Now we just need the separation of the parachute and the jets to fire. Then finally the landing.
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Live coverage
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ |
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Lander did separate!
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TOUCHDOWN!!!!!
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Yes, looks good
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Touchdown confirmed
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just landed
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There was absolutely no slip ups in the whole operation. The radar was confirmed to be working. Now it just needs to open up and begin transmitting.
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TOUCHDOWN!!!!! WHHHOOOOOOO! HHHHOOOOOOO! The operator crews goes nuts! Hey folks, we are back on Mars!!! |
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