Mars Exploration second rover, Opportunity ready for landing
Mars Exploration second rover, Opportunity ready for landing
Opportunity, will reach Mars at 05:05 Universal Time on Jan. 25 (1300hrs on Jan. 25 Singapore time) at a landing site on the opposite side of the planet from Spirit. Opportunity's landing site is on plains called Meridiani Planum
I think there will be a 'live' telecast on National Geographic Channel at 12noon of the landing. Do log onto that channel when the time comes! Hopefully, it will be a soft touchdown!
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must needs pour into mine eye.
Or i shall with bent and turned,
fall me down, distraught..To die.
must needs pour into mine eye.
Or i shall with bent and turned,
fall me down, distraught..To die.
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Hi,
I think No live telecast... just short "live" feed during different stages of the landing... You should log on to the "live" webTV in NASA website to get the "live" webcast.
Anyway, from the Spirit experience, it will be a long wait between events...
Wish them good luck!!!!
I think No live telecast... just short "live" feed during different stages of the landing... You should log on to the "live" webTV in NASA website to get the "live" webcast.
Anyway, from the Spirit experience, it will be a long wait between events...
Wish them good luck!!!!
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I've been tracking their progress as well as the Beagle's loss through space.com and bbc on my PPC's Avantgo channels....very interesting!weixing wrote:Hi,
I think No live telecast... just short "live" feed during different stages of the landing... You should log on to the "live" webTV in NASA website to get the "live" webcast.
Anyway, from the Spirit experience, it will be a long wait between events...
Wish them good luck!!!!
I wonder if we can set up an 8" SCT on Mars, how would Earth look like from there? Maybe I will see a half phase earth, and comment I can make out bluish features on the surface and then just barely make out its satellite as one dot next to Earth....earth being twice as big as Mars and much more reflective due to the oceans, probably it would be the brightest object in the martian sky (part from our sun and her 2 moons deimos and phobos)...
rich
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Yes, Real live boardcast on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html