Mars Landing - Sunday 8 p.m. ET

[Randypiper]

For a interesting distraction tonight:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/nasa_s_phoenix_mars_landing_where_to_watch_on_the_web

[Canuckistanian]

1. NASA Phoenix page here

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/

All the latest updated news.

[bananas]

2. Landing will be before 8pm - could be confirmed by 7:53 PM EST

From your link:
05.25.08, 9:30 a.m. EDT -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars this evening with no further adjustments to its flight path. The first possible time for confirmation that Phoenix has landed will be at 7:53 p.m. Eastern Time today.

[doublethink]

3. Thanks for the links ......

They seem to have 'pre-game' on the Nasa site going on now, very interesting graphics they are showing, the simulated animation was really worth seeing.

[struggle4progress]

4. NASA's Phoenix Mars Landing: Where To Watch On the Web

Michael Learmonth | May 25, 2008 10:10 AM

This could be must see TV: At 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, NASA begins live coverage of the Phoenix Mars Lander, as it attempts to make the first powered landing on the red planet since Viking 2 in 1976. Watch it online here or in Second Life. If you insist on watching on TV, Discovery Science is carrying the landing, and CNN promises to have some, but not complete, coverage at 7pm ET.

Phoenix will enter Mars' atmosphere at almost 13,000 miles per hour Sunday evening and then undergo what NASA engineers refer to as "seven minutes of hell" as it deploys a heat shield, then a parachute, and fires thrusters to touch down at just before 8 p.m. ET. At least that's when NASA first learns if the landing was a success--it takes the signal 15 minutes to reach Earth.

NASA is expecting upwards of 500,000 to tune in to its live coverage on the Web. Those tuning in will see the images at the same time as NASA, and get the analysis in real time. Phoenix's mission: Dig for ice that scientists believe exists just below the surface, and determine if it has ever, or could ever, support life ...

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/nasa_s_phoenix_mars_landing_where_to_watch_on_the_web

[calimary]

5. Kick! Thanks for these links, everybody!

Good luck, Phoenix!!!!

[Randypiper]

6. live feed

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

[Disturbed]

7. What is the point of all of the Mars landings?

:shrug:

[Randypiper]

8. Knowledge

[annabanana]

9. 15 minutes!!. . .n/t

[annabanana]

10. here's a link to the countdown

(lower right of page)
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/

[malaise]

11. We're watching on CNN

Thanks

[Fleshdancer]

12. CONGRATS NASA!!!!!

Landing was a success!!! :bounce:

[malaise]

13. Indeed n/t