BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars

Subject: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 May 08 - 06:47 PM

It's going to land, in about an hour. Kind of fun to listen to the experts and watch the simulations, etc. If successful, there may be some actual photos transmitted shortly after landing! It is going to the northern part, where none have gone before, to see if it can find water.

NASA TV click "Play" over on the right side of the viewing screen.

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 May 08 - 07:58 PM

Watching without the talking heads of CNN, etc., is great.

Phoenix has landed!

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 08 - 12:57 AM

Sky and Telescope has an image published already.

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 08 - 01:39 AM

There are more photos from Phoenix available at NASA's project site. This is a major technological triumph. When Phoenix reached the edge of the Martian atmosphere it was going 2500 miles an hour. USing an ablative shielding, a parachute drop, and finally, self-balancing circuits and retro-rockets, the device got through the atmosphere, ejected its heat shield, parachuted, ejected its parachute, retro-fired and straightened itself out to close with the surface of Mars' northen arctic region at zero mph and start sending pictures. It is absolutely phenomenal that we were able to do this.

Three cheers for the geeks of NASA, sez I. Well done indeed!!!!



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Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 May 08 - 03:42 AM

One day this earth will look like those pictures.

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Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 26 May 08 - 01:40 PM

Awesome stuff, but already I fear the UFO fraternity will be talking in hushed tones about the Polygon On Mars...

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 08 - 01:53 PM

The polygonic fracturing shown in the pictures is a natural byproduct of normal environment processes like blazing heat and freezing cold. It is found in some areas of Earth, as well.


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Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 08 - 02:22 PM

great stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 08 - 07:55 PM

Lovely!

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 May 08 - 08:27 PM

Was that a Mars Bar wrapper I saw amidst the polygons?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: NASA TV online - Phoenix Landing on Mars
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 27 May 08 - 05:49 PM

If only our politicians and social planners were as bold, audacious, imaginative and skillful as the engineers who have achieved this marvellous feat.