POLL: Will NASA Mars rover "SPIRIT" land successfully?

[PowerMacG5]

Parachute is out!!!

 

[WoofyJr]

aw found it. I watched the wrong cnn channel headline. i m watching the cnn live mission to mars...

 

[RedPickle]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I hope it makes it.

Landing video in Quicktime

Landing video mpeg

That was so incredibly cool.

Ditto.

wow that was awesome! it is amazing that they can design such a completely autonomous system like that. go engineers! can you imagine being on the surface and seeing that coming down? i'd be like "wtf?" (in martian of course)

amazing.

 

[bpctech]

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

 

[Wag]

Bouncy bouncy! ON THE SURFACE!

 

[WoofyJr]

did it finally land?

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year with the current orbit there is around 30 or so.

 

[bpctech]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year there is around 20.

They said 9 earlier on the telecast i've been streaming from nasa.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Hahahaha, CNN said the balloons look like grapes also, bwahaha.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year there is around 20.

They said 9 earlier on the telecast i've been streaming from nasa.

Hrmm, alright. Seems a little low to me though, but if it's what NASA said, then it must be correct.

 

[Wag]

Signal is out for the moment. Still bouncing hopefully...

All this happened 10mins ago, correct?

 

[bpctech]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year there is around 20.

They said 9 earlier on the telecast i've been streaming from nasa.

Hrmm, alright. Seems a little low to me though, but if it's what NASA said, then it must be correct.

you're right actually that does seem a little low. if I was at work I could calculate it, but alas I am at home.

 

[bpctech]

anyone else lose their nasa stream just now. been going great for 2 hours and now it goes down

 

[Eli]

Why is everyone saying this happened XX time ago?

It's live.

 

[WoofyJr]

where did u get that nasa streaming? i wanna see it!

 

[Wag]

256k Real stream still going here.

Now they need to put some relay satellites up between Mars and Earth.

Internet from Mars anyone?

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year there is around 20.

They said 9 earlier on the telecast i've been streaming from nasa.

Hrmm, alright. Seems a little low to me though, but if it's what NASA said, then it must be correct.

you're right actually that does seem a little low. if I was at work I could calculate it, but alas I am at home.

. I once did a project about a mission to Mars, and remember looking at the radio delay depending on when the spacecraft was launched, and which path we took (direct, or slingshot around Venus), and I still don't remember it ever being lower than around 12 or so. But I guess if we are lined up perfectly with Mars, it could go as low as that (I'm not sure though). I know the spacecraft took a 7 month journey, which means it didn't slingshot around Venus, which would take around a year and a half.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Eli
Why is everyone saying this happened XX time ago?

It's live.

it's live by radio, but there is a radio delay between Mars and Earth that is significant (radio travels at the speed of light, not instantaneous).

Also, they just said 4 minutes until they can verify anything.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Eli
Why is everyone saying this happened XX time ago?

It's live.

it's live by radio, but there is a radio delay between Mars and Earth that is significant (radio travels at the speed of light, not instantaneous).

Also, they just said 4 minutes until they can verify anything.

Oh, I see, yeah. I thought they meant the telecast itself.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Eli
Why is everyone saying this happened XX time ago?

It's live.

it's live by radio, but there is a radio delay between Mars and Earth that is significant (radio travels at the speed of light, not instantaneous).

Also, they just said 4 minutes until they can verify anything.

Oh, I see, yeah. I thought they meant the telecast itself.

Ah, I see. Nope telecast is live, but the radio stream from Mars is delayed.

w00t, one of the satellites has confirmed data obtained from the spacecraft during decent.

 

[bpctech]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: bpctech

Originally posted by: KraziKid
The fun thing about going to Mars is that the lander by now has already hit the ground around 20-40 minutes ago. So now we are just getting the radio signal's back.

9 minutes to be exact.

You sure? I believe around this time of year there is around 20.

They said 9 earlier on the telecast i've been streaming from nasa.

Hrmm, alright. Seems a little low to me though, but if it's what NASA said, then it must be correct.

you're right actually that does seem a little low. if I was at work I could calculate it, but alas I am at home.

. I once did a project about a mission to Mars, and remember looking at the radio delay depending on when the spacecraft was launched, and which path we took (direct, or slingshot around Venus), and I still don't remember it ever being lower than around 12 or so. But I guess if we are lined up perfectly with Mars, it could go as low as that (I'm not sure though). I know the spacecraft took a 7 month journey, which means it didn't slingshot around Venus, which would take around a year and a half.

cool! I actually wrote a program that can calculate the light time delay between earth and any mars orbiting spacecraft, however it runs by extracting certain ephemeris data from kernels, and I don't have any of the newest kernels at home.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Stanford is saying they picked up a signal.

 

[PowerMacG5]

woooooot, they got the tone, and the see it. Success.

 

[Kanalua]

We beat those Europeans!!!

 

[Wag]

It made it!

Now lets see the live video from Mars.