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Mars Polar Lander Lands Today

Posted by Hemos on from the to-the-future-and-beyond dept.

Quite a number of people have written, including the Webmaster of the Mars Polar Lander Site to let us know that it will be touching down at ~12:14 PST. The website will have also have a Downlink from the Lander itself which is incredibly cool. Check out their site - but also check out the technical document about the web site. Very interesting read for those of you who want to know about setting up a powerful web site. The web site is using a huge amount of Open Source software - Apache, Perl, PHP, Linux, MySQL and other software as well.

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  1. One alternate site for the coverage - live! by yule · · Score: 3

    If the main site is /.ed, try http://www.marsportal.com. They (we) have images and several live cameras from inside mission control at UCLA.

    (Disclaimer - Yes, I am indirectly related to this site.)

    -shane

  2. I was one of the many to submit this... by legoboy · · Score: 4

    You can also watch a NASA tv feed at broadcast.com. The have a 300k stream, which is cool. (MediaPlayer format, though)

    Here's the broadcast.com link: http://www.broadcast.com/events/n asa/marslanding/

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  3. it will be on discovery channel, live! by Frederic54 · · Score: 3

    i think it starts at 3:30pm, and first picture will come at 4pm, on Discovery Channel
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  4. Some random thoughts by jd · · Score: 3
    If it's on NASA Select, then it'll also be multicast =at full TV quality=. Throw that old RealAudio player out the window, install VIC, RAT and SDR, and enjoy a decent transmission, for a change! (* Assuming your ISP supports multicasting, or you can get a multicast tunnel set up *)

    A live downlink, eh? Just add an uplink, next time, and patch in Luner Lander...

    Whatever the guys at NASA do, =DON'T SNEEZE!= At least, not until the probe lands. Nobody really believes in that metric/imperial problem, with the last probe. We all know it's cos there was a flour fight in the control room, and nobody could tell which switch was which.

    The webmaster of NASA -told- Slashdot about this? I hope, for their sakes, they've laid in some extra lines of that 2 terabit fibre...

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