Yeah, I watched it down here in Australia. I'm amazed at: 1: the technology that allows me to watch this (I watched both the last two Mars rover landings, and the Cassini orbital insertion); 2: The organisational skills and planning that allowed 3 Mars orbiting spacecraft to be basically overhead of the Phoenix lander as it was undergoing entry and landing; 3: the amazing technology that meant all of the parts, and all of the orbiting spacecraft did all this several minutes before we watched it all in "real time" :-) Cheers, Wally Anglesea http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese -----Original Message----- From: George Olshevsky [mailto:george.olshevsky@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 26 May 2008 10:40 To: cdbl-chat@lists.comics.org; seesat-l Subject: Phoenix lands safely on Mars Watched the JPL people's faces on TV light up shortly before 5 pm local time when signals arrived from Mars indicating the successful landing of the Phoenix spacecraft. Good show! Hope the experiments go ahead according to plan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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