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I have found this movie about the phoenix probe, the landind is today:

http://ovnis-usa.com/

wow !

Linuxman

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/video/ed ... h_high.mov VLC video

La sonde am?ricaine Phoenix se pr?pare ? une descente p?rilleuse sur Mars

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080522/t ... ff8aa.html

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parle (anglais) NASA TV

http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

Phoenix Mission Briefings

* USA => time zone EDT(-5h) et PDT(-7h) et france CET(+2H)

24 mars 15h00 EDT, 12h00 PDT, 21h00 CET
25 mars 15h00 EDT, 12h00 PDT, 21h00 CET
25 mars 18h00 EDT, 15h00 PDT, (00h00 CET 26 mars)
25 mars 18h30 EDT, 15h30 PDT, (00h30 CET 26 mars)
25 mars 19h53 EDT, 16h53 PDT, (01h53 CET 26 mars)

Phoenix has successfully landed, and a confirmation signal has been received.

Hey, thanks for that post, Hungry...

When the Discovery/Science channel's "Live" report went off the air without any pictures, I was beginning to wonder if the solar cell panels had opened.
That show was a complete waste of time... Had "expert" commentators talking over the real conversations from the JPL, UA, and NASA sites where the action was happening. Was very disappointed, but now happy after finding images from the lander.

Take care, Brain-Dead

I watched it on the internet via NASA TV. They had 3 live shows scheduled. The landing, first data, and a press conference. At 9:30 PM EDT, they had the images being shown at the mission control room for the first time at ASU and the images were posted to http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ almost immediately. I think they waited until Odyssey was over the horizon so they could use that spacecraft to relay the data. Pretty cool stuff. Will be interesting to see what they find there.
Edit: From that color image, it looks like one of those little ridges making up the polygons visible from space runs very close the the spacecraft?
cartrite

Compare the REAL image above with this fictional rendering...

(NOTE: this was done BEFORE the actual landing in 3DS Max) by a guy in the UK for a competition here:

Not a bad likeness IMHO.... Spooky!

Click for large image:

The MRO spacecraft actually took a picture of Phoenix landing. The parachute is visible.
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
cartrite

Does anywhere in the solar system apart from Earth have any geography that does not look like a flat plain with a bunch of rocks/pebbles and the occasional crater on it?

yes, the gas giants, they are just clouds.

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0GsV8Kdig

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbcAKNeeqQ

20 min video total

Of course, the best news about Phoenix is that this means the Earth has finally equalised with Mars in the game of Expensive Hardware Lobbing.

The most insteresting is that Phoenix is already THERE,on Mars and we have no addon,no ssc,no xyz,no model at all.Is there anyone working in this?

Well if someone has a decent model of the lander, you could use this .ssc:



Size of the spacecraft and exact time may not be entirely accurate.
Position should be OK though.

Can people please use thumbnail images rather than posting huge pictures to this thread?

ajtribick wrote:Does anywhere in the solar system apart from Earth have any geography that does not look like a flat plain with a bunch of rocks/pebbles and the occasional crater on it?

The dune fields or lakes regions of Titan. Probably all of Europa and Io. The polar caps of Mars. But I get your point--while there may be more interesting surfaces in the solar system, you wouldn't know it based on the imagery from our landers. A collage of flat rocky plane images we've collected from the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Titan would be amusing.

--Chris

chris wrote:A collage of flat rocky plane images we've collected from the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Titan would be amusing.

Titan was particularly impressive: landing on a world which is completely different from any other planet on which landers have been dropped on, in a region that was preselected to be interesting (what was thought to be the shores of Xanadu), and the probe lands in a flat plain dotted with "rocks" like every other lander we've dropped on the other planets. I think that ranks up there with Galileo dropping through one of the few cloudless regions of the Jovian atmosphere.