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To: RightWhale

Bottom picture post 4.


11 posted on 05/26/2008 8:38:26 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: Young Werther

It might have shifted sideways a couple inches. Looks like a rock might have been hit. There were 12 individual retro rockets firing during landing.

‘Phoenix touched down with a vertical velocity of about 5.4 mph and a horizontal velocity of less than 0.2 mph, oriented with respect to north within 1 degree of what engineers expected.’


13 posted on 05/26/2008 8:44:09 AM PDT by RightWhale (You are reading this now)
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