Mars Phoenix Mission

[NikolaeVarius]

Awesome, just started burning into atmosphere. 10 minutes ago though.

But I'm confused, is the simulation showing what should be happening real time? Or is it 10 minutes lagged real time?

 

[Jeff7]

"Standby for possible plasma blackout."

:laugh:

Damn!

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
Why do they need a cop in the room? Is security at JPL that big of a concern?

he's probably holding the office pool money

 

[gamepad]

8kbps transmission from mars; is that enough to play wow?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

4 minutes to touchdown! Parachute deployed

Switched to 32kbps data stream

Everything worked well. w00t! 80m/s Ground Speed

 

[Modelworks]

Parachute is out !

 

[Jeff7]

<200mph

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
"Standby for possible plasma blackout."

:laugh:

Damn!

I didn't do nothing!

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Land legs down

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Down to 60 m/s

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Sorry double post

2k Meters off!

Dropping FAST

Separation detected!

300 meters!

 

[PowerEngineer]

Radar ... her we go 1500 meter

 

[Modelworks]

Touchdown!

 

[Jeff7]

It's slowing!!! 😀😀😀😀😀

😀😀😀😀😀

:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

 

[NikolaeVarius]

15 meters

TOUCHDOWN!

Link Established!

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Touchdown!

 

[gamepad]

touchdown!

 

[OUCaptain]

WooHoo!!! So how long until we start getting pics?

 

[Number1]

WOOOTTT landeed

 

[PowerEngineer]

and now for the extra point... 😀

 

[WisMan]

PHOENIX HAS LANDED! PHOENIX HAS LANDED!

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Confirmed

Welcome to Mars 😀

 

[NikolaeVarius]

DIRECT EARTH CONNECTION ESTABLISHED

PHOENIX HAS LANDED

Beers all around!

 

[Shawn]

sweet

 

[Number1]

No other nation in the world can do this!!!!

CONGRATULATION.