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May 25, 2008
Sunday
 
 
Phoenix Lander, live
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Aerospace

If you are interested in watching the Phoenix Mars Lander land, click here.

Phoenix is down! Congrats to the Phoenix team!

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Cheers, I am.

Has anyone got that page to work on a PS3 though? I want to use my PC for something else while I watch...

The PS3 shows the page OK, but I get the video window just displaying a static picture...


Posted by Gib at May 25, 2008 11:37 PM

It made it down :)

The Martians didn't swat this one out of the sky to eat. Mustn't be hungry this time. Or maybe it's just too cold for them up near the north pole.


Posted by Gib at May 26, 2008 12:58 AM

I wish I had a pub/bar around here that would be showing this on their TVs! As is, they're showing NASCAR. This was (is) ALMOST as exciting as any sporting event I could imagine watching on TV. AND IT WAS REAL STUFF!

I like sports as much as the next guy, but this crap was cool!


Posted by jbeekman at May 26, 2008 01:18 AM

I'll bite- who's holding the camera?


Posted by nick g. at May 26, 2008 03:58 AM

Signing off for tonight... I have an AMTRAK to catch from NY to DC in the morning and will be at the International Space Development Conference (isdc.nss.org) all week. I should be rather busy since I chair the committee that oversees NSS conferences, site selection etc, am running for the NSS board this year... and have much schmoozing to do for my New Space company.

I'll try to blog a bit from there but I am so busy being inside the thing that I may have little time to do so. I'm also sure we'll be hearing a lot about Phoenix there as we have quite s significant NASA contingent coming by.

So Ad Astra all and see you at the ISDC if you happen to be there.


Posted by Dale Amon at May 26, 2008 04:34 AM

I'll just add another comment of "Well Done" for the guys who put this together.


Posted by Michael Jennings at May 26, 2008 07:39 AM

Quite so Mr Jennings:

Congratulations to the United States - and well done to the people who worked on the project.

A fine thing for this Memorial Day.


Posted by Paul Marks at May 26, 2008 12:16 PM

Martian Planetary Defense(tm) failed again. They're good at shooting down ESA's probe. They even managed to hexed 2 or American's probe, but on this one, they completely blew it.


Posted by BigFire at May 26, 2008 03:33 PM

Oh, come on! Are you the last people on this planet – or Mars, for that matter – to realize that this whole thing was done on Hollywood back lots and CGI studios? Ask any reputable imam or 9-11 Truther for clarification.


Posted by Mitch at May 27, 2008 12:52 AM

Is it just me or are we congratulating NASA for doing something they did twice in the 1970's?

I mean, soft landing, digging some dirt, analysing it, weather sensing, etc were all done by the Viking landers in 1976. The only "breakthrough" of the Phoenix mission is that their lander weighs a tenth of what the Viking ones did (350 Kg against 3520 Kg), which is not much of a breakthrough considering the 30 years of miniaturisation advances in between.

If they were preparing for some manned landing or doing something they had not done before, maybe it would be worth all the excitement, but for repeating what they did 30 years ago...


Posted by Frederick Davies at May 27, 2008 10:36 PM

A fine achievement indeed. Well done. Enjoy the conference, Dale.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at May 29, 2008 07:25 PM
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