Mars Exploration second rover, Opportunity ready for landing

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Mars Exploration second rover, Opportunity ready for landing

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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
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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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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!!!!
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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'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!
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)...

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Hi,
how would Earth look like from there?
I think one of the spacecraft had turn their camera on earth and taken some images of earth, but I can't remember which one... ???

Have a nice day and happy Chinese New Year!!!
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Yes, Real live boardcast on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html
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So cool!

I was on live at the NASA portal at the exact second of landing listening to all the signals and cheering at nasa.

Congratulations for the safe landing to Nasa!

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Indeed, congratulations on the safe landing of their second rover at 25 Jan 2004, 1305 hrs Singapore Time. Can you see that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore is at the JPL too?? hehe.
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yeah was right on time watching NGC @ 12pm sharp~ Hope everything goes well for Opportunity though the 'live' telecase was somewhat a bore ... hee.....
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