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

[Eli]

SUCCESS!

 

[tennisflip]

USA! USA!

 

[Kanalua]

Holy Crap...they can get videos just after 9 pm PAcific?!?! Amazing!!!

 

[NFS4]

WOOT!

 

[Wag]

That would be in about 5mins.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Wag
256k Real stream still going here.

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

Internet from Mars anyone?

As nice as that sounds, it really won't work too well. Mars and Earth revolve around the sun at different speeds, meaning their distance apart constantly changes, putting the sun in between them at times. There's no good place, to my knowledge, that you could put a useful satellite because of this.

PS Yahoo! We beat the Martian Defense Grid. Up yours, Mars!

 

[Futher]

You think Nasa will put the Video's online tonight? or wait until tomorrowish....

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Futher
You think Nasa will put the Video's online tonight? or wait until tomorrowish....

What video's? We don't have a camera on mars filming it. The closest to what happened are those animations. We may get images from thee rover tonight, but not live video from the landing.

 

[Futher]

that's what I meant, pictures. I read from CNN that they take pictures at amazing resolution. It's going to be awesome =)

 

[Kanalua]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Futher
You think Nasa will put the Video's online tonight? or wait until tomorrowish....

What video's? We don't have a camera on mars filming it. The closest to what happened are those animations. We may get images from thee rover tonight, but not live video from the landing.

No, Fox has a crew there as we speak! President Bush planned this landing to happen at this time for maximum political utility, of course the administraton gave Fox News the exclusive...

 

[Eli]

NASA news conference on now..

 

[Futher]

Just read this in an article on CNEWS... "Once the rovers begin taking pictures and transmitting them, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory intends to post most of the images on the Web as soon as they are received on Earth." Good stuff =)

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Wag
256k Real stream still going here.

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

Internet from Mars anyone?

As nice as that sounds, it really won't work too well. Mars and Earth revolve around the sun at different speeds, meaning their distance apart constantly changes, putting the sun in between them at times. There's no good place, to my knowledge, that you could put a useful satellite because of this.

PS Yahoo! We beat the Martian Defense Grid. Up yours, Mars!

ROTFLMAO!

 

[DrPizza]

heh, I waited until it landed to vote

 

[Eli]

:wine::beer:

 

[bpctech]

congrats to everyone at JPL and NASA who put a lot of work into this project.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Just looked at CNN and they said it had 8000 miles left.
WTF!? CNN is a rerun or what?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just looked at CNN and they said it had 8000 miles left.
WTF!? CNN is a rerun or what?

Yeah, it was a rerun.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just looked at CNN and they said it had 8000 miles left.
WTF!? CNN is a rerun or what?

Yeah, it was a rerun.

Lame!!!

 

[snooker]

it is sending pics of mars back now!!

 

[rgwalt]

That is great news... NASA didn't botch the unit conversion and loaded the correct amount of fuel this time around.

R

 

[Grakatt]

Beat those europeans yes..except that it's their first try to put a probe on another planet. I'll laugh myself senseless though if they pick up a signal from Beagle 2.