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Mars Phoenix Mission

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Originally posted by: Baked
Never. We're just wasting money.
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This isn't wasting money, it's advancing the sphere of knowledge. Iraq, on the other hand is a far better definition of "wasting money".
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Less than 2h30m until landing. 🙂


I hope everyone's geared up their servers to handle the load of providing live online coverage of this.
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Link?
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Nasa.gov might be a good start, or else Google for Phoenix Lander. 😉
Use those 733t intarweb skillz!


😉

1h56m
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Less than 2h30m until landing. 🙂


I hope everyone's geared up their servers to handle the load of providing live online coverage of this.
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Link?
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Nasa.gov might be a good start, or else Google for Phoenix Lander. 😉
Use those 733t intarweb skillz!


😉

1h56m
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Not lacking skillz... just motivation. HOWEVER... while flipping channels I saw that it will be live on Discovery Science Channel and Science Channel HD.

"Do you want to record this program?"
Why, yes. Yes I do. *click*
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
while flipping channels I saw that it will be live on Discovery Science Channel and Science Channel HD.
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damn, i don't have the science channel.
what about the discovery channel, you ask?
well, i get the discovery channel but they're showing deadliest catch until 3am (it's 3:30pm right now)... like they don't show THAT enough F'ing times during the week as it is :|
 
Live coverage has started.

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Now they're playing background information, complete with shitty sound and video effects.
God I hate this ratings-oriented BS, even on Internet broadcasts.

 
Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
and obama wants to slash nasa budget🙁
#@!%
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As he should. The USA should fix problems in the country before they concentrate on dominating space.
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I truly hope you are joking, because that was the most idiotic thing ive heard for years...


If Obama cuts Nasa, it would cripple our country. Our presence in space contributes more to your life than anything else you could possibly think of...

In addition to all the technology invented specifically for use in space that the entire country now benefits from.... you would not have all these benefits:

1)Voice & Data Communications & GPS
2)Weather / Climate / Oceanography / Earth Science
3)Satelite Photography & Military Intelligence
3)Medicine / Cancer Research
4)Chemistry & Physics Research
5)Astronomy
6)Asteroid Impact Avoidance

Im sure there are more, but i dont have time to list them all...

Clearly NASA is the single most important agency within the Government at this space age we live in.
 
We use to live on Mars, ya know.
Used up all the oil on the planet and ignored signs of global warming.
Finally there was no atmosphere and we had to escape to a near by planet
occupied by large creatures and ape like beings.
After a while we mated with these ape men and women, mutated a new species
and began to become civilized.
Now, we want to go back to this used up dead planet and try to figure
its history out.
Darn Dirty apes!!!

What if this thing crashes or is DOA?
Maybe then we will consider Obama's viewpoint?
 
Kidding aside, it is interesting watching it on Nasa TV.
Makes me wish I would still be around when the first man/men/women
land, someday.
With the tech available now, we'd see it all live as it happens.
In HD and from every angle.
Much different from the first manned moon landing.
 
Several minutes until cruise stage separation.
😀

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is standing by to catch EDL data from Phoenix.

EDL = Entry, Descent, and Landing. - 7 minutes in which it goes from hitting the upper atmosphere to landing. They said that means going from about 13,000mph to 5mph for touchdown.

 
Originally posted by: PowerEngineer

It must be tough to just be sitting there at a console with nothing to do but watch what happens ... 10 minutes later!
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Or to see something 5 minutes from hitting your craft, and know that it already hit it 10 minutes ago 🙁

Current speed: 127,000 mph
Wonder how many MPG it gets ?

 
Originally posted by: PowerEngineer

It must be tough to just be sitting there at a console with nothing to do but watch what happens ... 10 minutes later!
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Tougher still to see a problem come up and know that there's not a damn thing to be done about it.


Imagine it too for the Cassini mission out at Saturn. It had to do a series of maneuvers without any instructions at all from Earth, first turning its antenna away from Earth to act as a shield as it passed through the Cassini gap in the rings, then turn around and fire an engine as it swings behind Saturn for orbital insertion, and then finally find Earth again and reestablish communications.

Phoenix has to think a little bit faster than that.🙂
Good luck, little critter!



Cruise stage separation. 🙂🙂
Should be about 2 minutes now from the start of EDL.

 
Originally posted by: hellokeith
Leave the politics out of this thread, puhleeeeassse.
<----- P&N is that way.

Here's a link for Windows Media Player:
NASA TV

20 minutes to go!!!!! 🙂
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Thanks for the link, working great even on this old work PC...
 
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