Comments on: Watch Phoenix land on Mars!

By: Randall

Randall — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:31:52 +0000

No offense to Emily, but for my Mars landing liveblogging needs, I've always gone with Spaceflight Now; they had a really good liveblog of the Spirit and Opportunity landings, and their Phoenix mission status center looks to be off to a good start.

By: blivet 2.0

blivet 2.0 — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:31:21 +0000

Mars Phoenix Lander at 23:53:52 (UT) 4:53 p.m. (PDT)…

Today is the day for the Mars Phoenix Lander to land on Mars. These details are from Phil’s Bad Astronomy Blog.

The Mars Phoenix Lander will be touching down on the surface of Mars on Sunday at 23:53:52 Universal Time (4:53 p.m. Pacific time). O…

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Sun, 25 May 2008 15:38:44 +0000

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By: riki

riki — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:33:56 +0000

Looks like the tech guys at NASA are also partial to good luck charms

Peanuts and Rolling Stones on hand for Mars landing
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13977-peanuts-and-rolling-stones-on-hand-for-mars-landing.html

By: Alex Witze

Alex Witze — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:34:18 +0000

Nature’s Eric Hand (yeah, okay, I work for Nature too) has a nice Tucson-based blog at http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/events/nasa_phoenix_landing/, if you want the view from the science operations center in Arizona to complement the JPL onslaught.

By: Hungarian

Hungarian — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:15:58 +0000

Hi BA!

I thought you might want to see this:

http://hup.hu/node/55255

It’s a Hungarian competition organized by a small town’s high scool where teams have to build Mars rovers, and then send them to take samples or do basic tasks that the real rovers did.

They need to implement some kind of AI since the rovers must be operated with a delay to make it a bit more realistic.

It’s sad that I only heard about it now, since “Hungarians on Mars” has been held for 3 years now.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:51:37 +0000

If you would just let slip that Lindsay Lohan will be on Mars to watch the landing, you can trick a camera crew into going there first to get better footage of the landing.