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POLL: Will NASA Mars rover "SPIRIT" land successfully?

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Ain't it?

With so many things that could go wrong, it's amazing they managed to land anything to begin with.

Only a few more hours.

Anyone manage to find a broadband link to NASA-TV? The best I could find was a 84k Real stream. I recall there was once a 300k WMP version.
 
The Beagle 2 is probably lost, but they have, as you should know, steered the satellite that carried it to Mars in closer orbit, so that on the 6:th or 7:th it will pass directly overhead the supposed landing site of the lander. I hope it can spy the probable wreckage with its camera anyway. I find this rather interesting, and I fail to understand why my posts about it have gone largely unnoticed on several forums, even 'geeky' ones. Anyway, even if the Spirit isn't as spectacular as little Beagle2, I wish it good luck.
 
Does anyone know if any TV stations are going to be airing this? There is only around 20 minutes to go (well, 40 if you count the radio delay) and was interested in seeing this.
 
Originally posted by: KraziKid
Does anyone know if any TV stations are going to be airing this? There is only around 20 minutes to go (well, 40 if you count the radio delay) and was interested in seeing this.
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There's a slight chance they'll know if it's successful tonight, it may take several days.

 
Mars needs women!

NASA TV is reporting that it actually made it there, and vented cooling.

Over 300 channels on Comcast and not a single one of them is carrying this, not even CSPAN. How lame is that?
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Mars needs women!

NASA TV is reporting that it actually made it there, and vented cooling.

Over 300 channels on Comcast and not a single one of them is carrying this, not even CSPAN. How lame is that?
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I have CBS on, and they aren't airing it, but they just mentioned they are minutes away, so maybe we will see some Mars action.
 
Originally posted by: KraziKid
Originally posted by: yllus
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I hope it makes it.

Landing video in Quicktime

Landing video mpeg
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That was so incredibly cool.
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Ditto.
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wow that was awesome! it is amazing that they can design such a completely autonomous system like that. go engineers! can you imagine being on the surface and seeing that coming down? i'd be like "wtf?" (in martian of course)
 
There used to be a 300k WMP stream, but I can't find it.

I gave in and installed RealPlayer. You can watch the streams in MediaPlayer Classic.

Sad that I can't watch this on TV. You'ld think at least CSPAN would carry this. I know there's alot of interest in this, especially from the kids. Isn't this why cable TV exists?
 
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.
 
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