What time are we landing on Mars today? ----- Original Message ----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sun May 25 15:20:02 2008 Subject: [Utah-astronomy] July-August 2008 SolarEclipse Hi All, I received a flyer for Total Solar Eclipse in Mongolia. Wilderness Travel is an excellent travel company for international trips. They have a few spots left. http://www.wildernesstravel.com/itins/evmongol.html Erik _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
On 25 May 2008, at 17:55, Rob Ratkowski Photography wrote:
PHOENIX HAS LANDED!!!!!
And we all get to start breathing again... :) But seriously, Phoenix is not just on the ground but it landed within one half degree of level and azimuth is near spot on too. Now we wait for word that the solar panels deployed. Hopefully word of that and the first images will be out just over an hour from now. Huzzah for Phoenix!!! patrick
I was listening to NPR on Friday. One of the project seniors was speaking and was asked, "why jets and not airbags?" The project director stated, "I don't feel it is very dignified to arrive as a guest on another planet bouncing around in a bag." I loved it! -A
Cute reply, but woefully lacking in meaningful information. I'm guessing that as the lander inherited a most of it's hardware from prior projects, project engineers were obligated to use landing rockets because they had no choice. If I remember correctly, this mission cost about half of the previous successful lander budget. What's undignified is the project director stating "beggars can't be choosers". Can't wait to see photos! On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ann House <ann@annhouse.org> wrote:
I was listening to NPR on Friday. One of the project seniors was speaking and was asked, "why jets and not airbags?" The project director stated, "I don't feel it is very dignified to arrive as a guest on another planet bouncing around in a bag."
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