Mars Pheonix Lander to touch down in less than 7 hours

SUBMAN1 · 05-25-08, 11:53 AM

You can watch live coverege here - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ - Starting at 6 PM EST. Earliest possible for landing confirmation will be 7:53 PM EST.

-S

SUBMAN1 · 05-25-08, 12:04 PM

The landing is, well, lots of room for something to go wrong:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat...ulation-th.jpg

Amazing if this all works perfectly. Hope for the best!

-S

Blacklight · 05-25-08, 08:46 PM

It's landed and it's in fne working order !!

CCIP · 05-25-08, 10:46 PM

Woohoo, good on them!

Stealth Hunter · 05-26-08, 12:11 AM

They sent a couple of pictures back from the landing. Really cool. However, it's shutting down for the night. Missions and exploration will commence tomorrow.

Blacklight · 05-26-08, 12:36 AM

In honor of the landing, being the nerd I am, I flew the Phoenix Lander to Mars using the Orbiter spaceflight sim. Here's some pics I shot of the mission.

I love Orbiter.

bookworm_020 · 05-26-08, 12:41 AM

At least they beat the odd's! 55% of all missions fail!

05-26-08, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

At least they beat the odds! 55% of all missions fail!

Yeah , now its only a 50/50 fail rate for missions to mars

I watched the NASA tv live feed this morning and the various conference's afterwards - everyone involved has every right to be ecstatic , the whole thing ran like it was on rails

Blacklight · 05-26-08, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Quote:
Originally Posted by bookworm_020
At least they beat the odds! 55% of all missions fail!

Yeah , now its only a 50/50 fail rate for missions to mars

I watched the NASA tv live feed this morning and the various conference's afterwards - everyone involved has every right to be ecstatic , the whole thing ran like it was on rails

Yep ! It was the first mission they had in a LONG time with not many "issues".

I hope they iron out the problems that cause the 55% mission failure rate before we send people there !

SUBMAN1 · 05-26-08, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

At least they beat the odd's! 55% of all missions fail!

That is true worldwide, but NASA seems to have a much lower mission failure than the rest of the world. I'd say over 80%+ of their missions work to Mars.

XabbaRus · 05-27-08, 02:47 AM

Shut down for the night, but will they be able to turn it back on? I remember one probe had that problem.

Stealth Hunter · 05-27-08, 04:44 AM

Should be able to. They did it just yesterday.

The thing that ticks me off more than anything is that we could avoid all these problems if the government would just devote more funding to NASA to make improvements, but with our President against these scientific things (being a Christian/Creationist) and with our economy in such a bad state, finding extraterrestrial life on Mars is not the biggest concern... unfortunately. Then again, these budgetary cuts on NASA have been occurring since Apollo 11.

You know, this could very well be the biggest scientific expedition in history since Columbus discovered the New World. If we do find life... then it pretty much rewrites how we think of ourselves in the universe. Not only that, but it might also begin our glorious Atheist revolution and the birth of advanced logical times.

Still, if we don't find anything, then we've still got some cool samples to analyze and study further.

bradclark1 · 05-27-08, 08:06 AM

It simply amazes me that you can send something between 48 to 64 million miles miles depending on it orbit and have something land where you want it.

SUBMAN1 · 05-27-08, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradclark1

It simply amazes me that you can send something between 48 to 64 million miles miles depending on it orbit and have something land where you want it.

Try 10 times that - 411 million miles, and even more amazingly, it didn't even require a course correction before landing!

-S

ReallyDedPoet · 05-27-08, 11:41 AM

The Phoenix Lander has a weather station that was made in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/0...rs-lander.html
Story from the launch ^^^.

RDP

05-25-08, 11:53 AM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Mars Pheonix Lander to touch down in less than 7 hours You can watch live coverege here - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ - Starting at 6 PM EST. Earliest possible for landing confirmation will be 7:53 PM EST. -S __________________

05-25-08, 12:04 PM	#2
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The landing is, well, lots of room for something to go wrong: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat...ulation-th.jpg Amazing if this all works perfectly. Hope for the best! -S __________________

05-25-08, 08:46 PM	#3
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	It's landed and it's in fne working order !! __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

05-25-08, 10:46 PM	#4
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Woohoo, good on them! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-26-08, 12:36 AM	#6
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	In honor of the landing, being the nerd I am, I flew the Phoenix Lander to Mars using the Orbiter spaceflight sim. Here's some pics I shot of the mission. I love Orbiter. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

05-26-08, 12:11 AM	#5
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	They sent a couple of pictures back from the landing. Really cool. However, it's shutting down for the night. Missions and exploration will commence tomorrow.

05-26-08, 12:41 AM	#7
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	At least they beat the odd's! 55% of all missions fail! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

05-27-08, 02:47 AM	#11
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Shut down for the night, but will they be able to turn it back on? I remember one probe had that problem. __________________

05-27-08, 04:44 AM	#12
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Should be able to. They did it just yesterday. The thing that ticks me off more than anything is that we could avoid all these problems if the government would just devote more funding to NASA to make improvements, but with our President against these scientific things (being a Christian/Creationist) and with our economy in such a bad state, finding extraterrestrial life on Mars is not the biggest concern... unfortunately. Then again, these budgetary cuts on NASA have been occurring since Apollo 11. You know, this could very well be the biggest scientific expedition in history since Columbus discovered the New World. If we do find life... then it pretty much rewrites how we think of ourselves in the universe. Not only that, but it might also begin our glorious Atheist revolution and the birth of advanced logical times. Still, if we don't find anything, then we've still got some cool samples to analyze and study further.

05-27-08, 08:06 AM	#13
bradclark1 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA. Posts: 2,794 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	It simply amazes me that you can send something between 48 to 64 million miles miles depending on it orbit and have something land where you want it. __________________

05-27-08, 11:41 AM	#15
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,886 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	The Phoenix Lander has a weather station that was made in Canada http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/0...rs-lander.html Story from the launch ^^^. RDP __________________ Back in the Day