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Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours

Posted by kdawson on from the entry-descent-and-landing dept.

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. geeky video here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/phoenix/phx20080327/

  2. I wonder by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that Imperial hours or metric hours?

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  3. A better link for full JPL/Phoenix coverage by Mc_Anthony · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hello from JPL...

    Best place to go for coverage including links to NASA TV (live video starts at 3:30pm PDT is... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/phoenix.

    Wish us luck!