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05-25-2008, 02:02 PM
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Mars Landing tonight
Should be interesting.
Hope it comes down clean. They are using parachutes and thrust to slow it down instead of the bouncy ball balloons hope I come to rest in one piece. Good luck to U of Arizona they are calling the shots. 
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05-25-2008, 07:18 PM
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Did you place cameras on the surface of Mars? Or have you been playing with Thebbie's toys for too long... For the teeming millions interested, nothing more can be done now. Last instructions were sent. On Sunday, the pull of Mars gravity will accelerate the spacecraft from 6,300 miles per hour to 12,700 miles per hour when it enters the Martian atmosphere. “And then we have seven minutes to take that velocity down to zero,” Mr. Goldstein said. The friction of the atmosphere will slow the craft down by 90 percent. Then a parachute is to provide further drag, and for the last kilometer down to the surface, 12 rocket engines are to slow Phoenix to a velocity of 5 miles per hour as it bumps into the ground. This type of landing failed in 1999. Hope it makes it... and Morton's cameras on the surface get a good picture as she glides in from above.
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05-25-2008, 07:33 PM
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05-25-2008, 07:33 PM
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@ NASA television link. Discovery Science has coverage too
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05-25-2008, 07:38 PM
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CNN Right now interviewing NASA and will stay live throughout!
 Cmon Bill, you still have TV right? 
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05-25-2008, 07:50 PM
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Morton has a tinfoil hat on.
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05-25-2008, 07:55 PM
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A geek party breaks out.
Hopefully all equipment is in order and we get some shots of a perfectly flat boring surface.
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05-25-2008, 07:57 PM
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Some people actually are interested.
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05-25-2008, 08:14 PM
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05-25-2008, 08:25 PM
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They wanted to do something to recognize the record 11 explosions in Mr. Garden's physics lab this month.
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05-25-2008, 08:31 PM
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Right next to Wal-Mart
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05-25-2008, 08:33 PM
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to do with it. It has to come down intact to get information from the probes. We have learned so much more from these missions than sending people up which is infinitely more expensive and not nearly as productive in gathering information.
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