Just a few things I picked up from the press briefing... <br /><br />One guy was discussing the accuracy and used analogy of hitting on hole in one playing golf. Teeing off from Washington D.C. and hitting a 4 inch hole in Sydney, Australia 10,000 miles away. When he turned it over to the next guy, the next guy (sorry, forgot their names) said "you forgot to tell them the hole was moving."<br /><br />I got a pretty good laugh from that along with the rest of the press.<br /><br />They ended up down range from their target, not sure yet what happened without pure speculation. MRO will attempt imaging it over the next few days based on their best guesses and triangulate.<br /><br />Confirmed Meteorological mast has deployed.<br /><br />They showed some color images, but didn't say if they were false, nor could I find any on the net yet.<br /><br />Parachute deployed 6.5 seconds later than anticipated. Touchdown was 7 seconds behind.<br /><br />No dust on solar arrays or deck of the lander.<br /><br />No concern about the arm digging through the soil. Stated that only limit is solid ice... they can handle anything else. They do have a 'rasp' that shave the ice, though and can recover the shaving and bake it to analyze the vapor.<br /><br />A reporter asked about the white "thing" in the image. They said it was a polar bear. They said they really don't know, but didn't rule out it was the chute or heat shield. They said these images were low resolution images so they could get them out today. They will get much better resolutions in the coming days.<br /><br />They don't have an agenda quite yet, but looking at the available power source and how well it is working, they are guessing they will probably be able to cram more into their agenda than what they planned.<br /><br />Won't have a full 360 panorama, but guess maybe 120 degree in a one color image by tomorrow (mon.)... maybe full color 360 by tues. I didn't quite catch what they said.<br /><br />Ability to take 22 samples at 2 or 3 days per sample. That's what budgeted for their power. Probably won't start digging for a week.<br /><br />2pm EST daily briefings for the foreseeable future. <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>