Mars spacecraft faces riskiest part of mission (Phoenix Mars Lander)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/24/08 | Alicia Chang - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Phoenix Mars Lander

JoJo Aguilar dusts a full-scale model of the Phoenix lander Thursday, May 22, 2008, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The lander will reach Mars on Sunday, May 25, to begin a three-month mission studying an arctic site on the Red Planet. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

[NormsRevenge]

earlier thread

Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole (Phoenix Mars lander & “seven minutes of terror”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018263/posts

[NormsRevenge]

NASA Phoenix Mars Lander
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html

Latest Update on Phoenix Mars Lander
05.24.08 — Get the highlights from the Phoenix News Briefing at JPL on Sat., May 24.
Read more
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080524.html

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Appleby]

I believe that here in Canada Discovery Channels *Daily Planet* program is going to broadcast the landing live.

[Incorrigible]

Scientist 1: Good thing we all used Metric system calculations for landing the craft this time.

Scientist 2: You used Metric calculations???!

[NormsRevenge]

Thnaks!

I hope one of the eyes in the Martian skies can catch some of it..

[KevinDavis]

Enjoy this.. Under Obama you can kiss this type of stuff goodbye when he guts NASA...

There will be a live thread tomorrow...

[Lokibob]

The Science channel is having a live show tomorrow night 7-9PM eastern.

.....bob

[fanfan]

It lands tomorrow?

How exciting!

Thanks for posting.

Ping!

[fanfan]

Discovery channel

On Daily Planet, 7-9 EDT.

[bubbacluck]

I hope all goes well. I’d like to watch it live; I wonder what time zone Mars is? ;=0>

[EGPWS]

Under Obama you can kiss this type of stuff goodbye when he guts NASA...

CHANGE is the progressive mantra now.

We mustn't get in the way of progress. /s

[jnygrl]

Please add me to your ping list...thanks!

[EGPWS]

I wonder what time zone Mars is? ;=0>

#@*>>??%*, in Martian time. ; )

[dragnet2]

Well be watching that coverage. Won’t miss it!

[Puddleglum]

I hope all goes well. I remember the lander of a few years ago that smashed into Mars instead of gently landing because of some silly metric-to-English conversion or something like that.

Anyway, I have been a big space exploration fan since I was a boy in the 70’s and always look forward to these missions. I remember the first moon landing thanks to my dad calling me to the set to watch.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.

[aft_lizard]

Discovery Science Channel here in America will be showing it in HD.

[onedoug]

Here’s hoping....