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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."

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  1. Re:Buddy's Idea by wizardforce · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's as if a million servers screamed out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.