Phoenix Mars Lander.

[hal9891]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'> Yes, because of the continual tracking by MRO & Mars Odyssey, the exact location is known.The ESA Mars Express will relay first images in about 90 minutes. Apparently footpads, arrays & perhaps a portion of the horizon has been taken already.&nbsp;I had just had to rush to the bathroom as I was sick, I think the worry is coming out now & really do not feel too well, but I will stay up for the first images. Can't sleep right now anyway.Sol 1&nbsp;later today&nbsp;the first 360 panorama is to be returned, just heard someone say.Andrew Brown. <br /> Posted by 3488</DIV></p><p>You should really have a drink, Andrew!<img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#808080" color="#999999"><font size="1">"I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them"</font></font><br /></div> </div>

 

[bobw]

<p>Landing, that's great news.</p><p>I was just thinking about it hovering and swiveling around to get it right...&nbsp; how does Phoenix know it is aligned East/West?&nbsp; Compass, camera, or aligned with signals from the Comm satellites? </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[cosmictraveler]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4">Great job, well done to everyone that was involved with this project. Now let us hope that&nbsp;good data&nbsp;will be sent back soon. <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" title="Cool" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph</p> </div>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Landing, that's great news.I was just thinking about it hovering and swiveling around to get it right...&nbsp; how does Phoenix know it is aligned East/West?&nbsp; Compass, camera, or aligned with signals from the Comm satellites.&nbsp; <br />Posted by bobw</font></DIV></p><p><strong><font size="2">Hi bobw, alignment with the MRO & Odyssey.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">It was textbook, really was. Just the wait for confirmation of opening of arrays. I am not worried about that as we know the final pre EDL & post landing telemetry have shown that ALL systems are in perfect working order.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">Andrew Brown.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[aphh]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Landing, that's great news.I was just thinking about it hovering and swiveling around to get it right...&nbsp; how does Phoenix know it is aligned East/West?&nbsp; Compass, camera, or aligned with signals from the Comm satellites.&nbsp; <br /> Posted by bobw</DIV></p><p>That is a very good question. I'm guessing Sun is used for final orientation. </p>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">That is a very good question. I'm guessing Sun is used for final orientation. <br />Posted by aphh</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Hi aphh, at this point the cameras would not have been used & the visual trackers were on the Cruise Stage, that was&nbsp;jettisoned 11 minutes earlier.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Hopefully the Solar Arrays & Camera Mast have been deployed.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[bobw]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>alignment with the MRO & Odyssey.&nbsp; Posted by 3488</DIV></p><p>Thank-you Andrew.&nbsp; The whole thing sounds pretty complicated, timing the landing with two satellites and then use them to point it the right way too. Just amazing.&nbsp; </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[mattblack]

<p>As I was watching the final descent, I start playing Gustav Holsts "MARS" as a soundtrack. As a coincidence, the touchdown confirmation occurred EXACTLY on the last dramatic note!!&nbsp;Result -- tears of triumph from me... <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>One Percent of Federal Funding For Space: America <strong><em><u>CAN</u></em></strong> Afford it!!  LEO is a <strong><em>Prison</em></strong> -- It's time for a <em><strong>JAILBREAK</strong></em>!!</p> </div>

 

[aphh]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Hi aphh, at this point the cameras would not have been used & the visual trackers were on the Cruise Stage, that was&nbsp;jettisoned 11 minutes earlier.Hopefully the Solar Arrays & Camera Mast have been deployed.Andrew Brown. <br /> Posted by 3488</DIV></p><p>Thanks, do you know if the down pointing landing camera was used?&nbsp;</p>

 

[derekmcd]

I see all the major news outlets on the net have this as their number one headline.&nbsp; Good to see it getting so much coverage.&nbsp; This really is a big deal.&nbsp; Imagine the news stories to follow if they find organic or even biologiccal stuff.&nbsp; Wow!!!&nbsp; How huge that would be.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[newsartist]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>"...Andrew, breathe. Just breathe...."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Jcon</DIV></p><p>There's a lot of people breathing again!</p><p><font size="4">WELL DONE to All!</font></p><p><br /><br />&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Thank-you Andrew.&nbsp; The whole thing sounds pretty complicated, timing the landing with two satellites and then use them to point it the right way too. Just amazing.&nbsp; <br />Posted by bobw</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Phoenix now?</strong></font><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/10/10/1a41885f-28ff-491d-8ae2-1f5edf9034b9.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>It is still sinking in, that Phoenix has landed successfully.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Data relay arrival from Odyssey in about 45 minutes. The ESA Mars Express will soon be passing over.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Andrew Brown.<br /></strong></font><br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Thanks, do you know if the down pointing landing camera was used?&nbsp; <br />Posted by aphh</font></DIV></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Hi aphh, no it wasn't. There were fears that it would interfere with the radar, so it remained switched off. </font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">This is still one possibility behind the loss of the Mars Polar Lander in December 1999.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Andrew Brown.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[arkady]

<p>Hooray!</p><p>Once again JPL (and co) comes through. Perfect landing it seems. Though it's probably a bit early to pop the champagne until we have conformation that the solar panels have deployed. Didn't quite catch when next communication is expected?</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "<font color="#0000ff"><em>The choice is the Universe, or nothing</em> ... </font>" - H.G Wells </div>

 

[arkady]

<p>45 mins I see, nevermind.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "<font color="#0000ff"><em>The choice is the Universe, or nothing</em> ... </font>" - H.G Wells </div>

 

[DrRocket]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>45 mins I see, nevermind. <br />Posted by arkady</DIV><br />&nbsp;</p><p>Status data is starting to come in and it is looking good.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Hooray!Once again JPL (and co) comes through. Perfect landing it seems. Though it's probably a bit early to pop the champagne until we have conformation that the solar panels have deployed. Didn't quite catch when next communication is expected? <br />Posted by arkady</font></DIV></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">In 39 minutes time. </font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Solar Panels & Camera Mast have deployed, apparently. Just been announced. Phoenix may have landed very slightly long, but still well within the 'sweet spot'.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Andrew Brown.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>&nbsp;Status data is starting to come in and it is looking good. <br /> Posted by DrRocket</DIV></p><p>Indeed... seems the good news is just getting piled on top of good news.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Thanks, do you know if the down pointing landing camera was used?&nbsp; <br />Posted by aphh</DIV><br /><br />No, potential data overload, so it was axed. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[fractionofadot]

<p>I spent the last 20 minutes trying to get the stream up on my linux laptop.. I came in at a point where I believe I heard "hasn't heard anything since one minute after touchdown" and then a lady saying everything was nominal - which calmed me back down. </p><p>But is it a time to panic? </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Indeed... seems the good news is just getting piled on top of good news.&nbsp; <br /> Posted by derekmcd</DIV></p><p>The only bad news is i'm gonna be having some serious storms rolling through s. Wisconsin here shortly.&nbsp; Might have to disconnect... what a drag.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I spent the last 20 minutes trying to get the stream up on my linux laptop.. I came in at a point where I believe I heard "hasn't heard anything since one minute after touchdown" and then a lady saying everything was nominal - which calmed me back down. But is it a time to panic? <br /> Posted by fractionofadot</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I heard that too, but apparently none seem too worried.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[fractionofadot]

<p>Maybe they were just referring to the orbiters being out of the communications window after touchdown...</p><p>To put it simply, to get the stream back up and hear that first scared the crap out of me </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[spin0]

<p>Phoenix's twitter:</p><p>"EDL went better than anyone expected. The team trains for the worst and then hopes for the best. This was better than BEST! It was perfect." </p><p><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I spent the last 20 minutes trying to get the stream up on my linux laptop.. I came in at a point where I believe I heard "hasn't heard anything since one minute after touchdown" and then a lady saying everything was nominal - which calmed me back down. But is it a time to panic? <br />Posted by fractionofadot</DIV><br /><br />I think it was expected. According to the timeline I have, the lander radio is turned off for something like 30 minutes. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>