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  1. 25-May-2008 #1
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    Space Post - Good luck Phoenix tonight!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7411113.stm
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  2. 26-May-2008 #2
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    She's down, live and sending back Telemetry.

    Ohh -****ing-Rah.

    http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/status.html


    It's moments like this that renew my faith in us as a whole, and that we can accomplish the impossible.
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  3. 26-May-2008 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by p2501 View Post
    She's down, live and sending back Telemetry.
    Thanks for the link, man.

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    It's moments like this that renew my faith in us as a whole, and that we can accomplish the impossible.
    Well said. Now let's blow this thing and go home!
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    ah, spaceflightnow.com one of the best space exploration sites on the net.

    here is one of the first pics phoenix sent back.


    Last edited by Mike70; 26-May-2008 at 02:07 PM.
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."
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    I love the swirl in the martian soil..

    but this is exciting as can be, and i cannot wait for more images/videos to return to us.
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    ULLAAAAAAHHHHH!
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  7. 26-May-2008 #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tricky View Post


    ULLAAAAAAHHHHH!
    I wonder if the Red Weed is smokeable?
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  8. 27-May-2008 #8
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    Ran across this a little bit ago,





    This amazing photo shows the Phoenix lander, still protected inside its backshell and heat shield, stretched out below its parachute (at the top of the image). It was taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Phoenix descended, a speeding bullet photographed by a speeding bullet. Credit: NASA / JPL / U. Arizona

    http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001464/
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  9. 27-May-2008 #9
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    --exhales bong hit--

    like wow, man that is awesome.


    on a serious note:

    MRO is going to try and image the actual landing site here in the next little bit. should be really cool if it can actually capture some pics of phoenix on the surface.
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."
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    My buddy and I were watching this "live" on Sunday and had a $20 bet as to whether it would land safely or crash like the last one(99?). I bet it would make it.

    I look forward to seeing what pictures/info it gathers.
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    for those of you interested here is the phoenix homepage at the univ of arizona:

    http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/


    here is a pic that MRO took of the landing site:

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    its cool that they've landed a probe on mars & got those pictures,but it looks like one hell of a boring planet!its a huge anti-climax considering the legend & folklore surrounding the planet over the centuries,from it being a symbol of war in ancient times,right up to those pictures supposedly showing a face on its surface a few years back!it will probably be full of minerals that will eventually end up being mined or whatever in the distant future & other stuff that will have scientists creaming for a while,but it doesnt look a very exciting place!
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    Ice already found? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph.../20080531.html

    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan
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    Yup Neil, I don't think it's gonna be long until we get some crazy announcement from NASA...
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    Quote Originally Posted by capncnut View Post
    I don't think it's gonna be long until we get some crazy announcement from NASA...
    What like, 'The fish is in the toaster!'?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan
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