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Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours
AFP has a good summary of the pre-touchdown jitters the Phoenix Mars Lander crew is living through. The spacecraft has been under way for 10 months. If the landing goes according to plan — and only about half of the three dozen such attempts have — mission controllers at the University of Arizona will receive radio signals from the Martian surface at 23:53 GMT. Here's the Mars mission home. You can (in theory) track the lander here, but at the moment the JPL Solar System Simulator is "experiencing technical difficulties."
As if they don't have enough to worry about, now we /. them!
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
A buddy of mine once said it would've been cool to put a little mini-web server on the Spirit rover.
Latency aside, can you imagine what would have happened if they had done so and someone posted the URL to /.?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Way to go guys, we slashdotted Mars!
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
Is that Imperial hours or metric hours?
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The broadcast feels like a mix between a science lecture and coverage of a sporting event, which is pretty neat. As in sports, I'm cheering on the efforts of supremely talented people to score a goal. Rather than a football in an end zone, it's a lander on the northern plains of Mars. The difference here is that victory will actually mean something for mankind.
Go Earth! Get those Martians!
Yeah, it looks like a feed from the TV department at Best Buy.