[Phil V.]

If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me

[Brett66]

Are these times CST?

[jimkress]

So, the real time coverage of Spirit will be a black screen?

[Phil V.]

. . . Landing site . . .

[sam_paine]

Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information.

Why don't they put the raw data on the web along with their decode tools like they did with the Telascience demos? It'd be nice if I could hack around on the received raw telemetry...not that I'd figure out anything before they did, but with all the hackers in the world working on it, something interesting might be discovered. It's not like there'd be some danger of a hacker transmitting somthing back to Spirit or anything.

[ChadGore]

I need a fellow FReeper to check my numbers, but I think I've got a pretty good idea on how far the bounces were for the Spirit lander.

1 meter = 39.37 inches.

American Football field, Endzone to endzone, = 4320 Inches
150 Meters = 5905
One American football field, endzone to endzone, is equal to .7315% of 150 meters

150 meters in the drawing = 374 pixels

374 pixels * .7315 = 273.58 pixels

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1) Soooooo, placing bounce number 1 right on the fieldgoal, at about the same place players take the "Lambeau Leap".

2) The second bounce was right on the 50 yard line, midfield

3) The third bounce was just inside of field goal range, on about the 25 yard line.

4) The 4th bounce would be just inside the left goal post in the back other endzone.

kewl, eh ?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I wish the major media outlets would give this the coverage it deserves but they seem to think we all care about what a bunch of fickle people in New Hampshire are doing.Way tooooo much coverage of that!