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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. 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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