Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours 119
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."
oh sure (Score:3, Funny)
Buddy's Idea (Score:4, Funny)
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 /.?
Re:Buddy's Idea (Score:5, Funny)
no photos, planet not available at this time (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
Re:no photos, planet not available at this time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A better link for full JPL/Phoenix coverage (Score:5, Funny)
Go Earth! Get those Martians!
Re:Buddy's Idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
(I say that - what do you think the odds are of them missing Mars entirely? That would be pretty impressive, especially at this late stage...)
Re:Just landed (Score:2, Funny)