In an effort to make my coverage here tonight be a bit more tidy than for the first landing I'm going to provide now a list of the events we expect to see. Then as NASA TV reports a given event has occurred my message to the list will be very short (e.g.. "parachute open"). So, here's what we expect to see ("L" = abut 10:05 p.m. MST): Entry Turn Starts: L - 91 min. Entry Turn Completed By L - 77 min Cruise Stage Separation: L - 21 min Atmospheric Entry: L - 6 min, altitude 120 km Parachute Deployment: L - 113 sec, altitude 8.6 km, speed 472 km/hr Heatshield Separation: L - 93 sec Lander Starts Down Bridal: L - 83 sec Radar Ground Acquisition: L - 35 sec, 2.4 km above ground Descent Images Acquired: L - 30 sec, 2.0 km above ground L - 22 sec, 1.4 km above ground L - 26 sec, 1.7 km above ground Start Airbag Inflation: L - 8 sec, 284m above ground Retro-Rocket Firing: L - 6 sec, 134m, 82 km/hr Bridle Cut: L - 3 sec, 10 m above ground Landing: Entry + 354 sec Bounces, Rolls Up to 1 km Roll Stop: Landing + 10 min Airbags Retracted: L + 66 min Petals Opened: L + 96 min to L + 187 min During today's press conferences on NASA TV several comments have been made to the effect that in view of the problems with the first lander, tonight they will be taking it slow on getting any images back. In fact, one guy said it could be as much as 22 hours. So we should not expect to see images as quickly as we did with MER A. Patrick