Mars Exploration Rover landing party at IRC with NASA :-)

[Jugalator]

Some guys from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have set up an IRC channel on the server irc.freenode.org, on the standard IRC port 6667 in channel #maestro. Join us if you wish to celebrate the touch down live with NASA. Right now there are two NASA guys in there and people are asking them various questions.

MER Home: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Expected landing times: The rover "Spirit" -- about 8:35 pm PST, the rover "Opportunity" -- about 9:05 pm PST. Both January 3.

[Guest]

Sorry -- that should be irc.freenode.net and nothing else.

[TERRIER]

I've got another link to the NASA TV Landing Page;

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Now all I've got to do is work out what Pacific Standard Time is compared to over here in England, so I don't miss it.

[ElPelado]

JUGALATOR, Are you sure about this:

Expected landing times: The rover "Spirit" -- about 8:35 pm PST, the rover "Opportunity" -- about 9:05 pm PST. Both January 3

The oportunity will try to land in two weeks...

[Jugalator]

Yes, I obviously goofed up there (too). Sorry for that. I was kinda excited about the landing when writing that, and that combined with already starting to get tired (surely 3-4 am when I wrote it).