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#26 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 05:07:19
We got em. Hurray!
Edit: I can't wait for them to put 'em on the web site.
#27 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 03:32:33
Looks like the Odyssey pass will be at 3:15AM PST. I think that's where I got the 3 hour thing above.
I thought the "lunchtime lecture" was excellent. I wished they would have showed earlier ones. Maybe they'll show some of the future ones.
Edit: They just got the confirmation beep that Opportunity has 6 wheels on the soil. Yeah!
#28 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 02:42:48
I agree completely about the commentators talking over the operations people. I'd much rather hear what's going on then have the commentators talking about something else.
I saw both the landings live too. I remember when Wayne Lee was saying "wait wait" when they were trying to aquire the signal after the first bounce. Talk about a nail biter. I was having visions of a dead rover. I was SO relieved when everything was ok. And I really liked his "airliner" commentary during Opportunity's landing. "if you look out the window you can see Olympus Mons..." That was great!.
#29 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 02:16:15
Hey Josh,
Glad that I'm not the only one watching. This is REALLY exciting. 
I really like the way they lets us eavesdrop on the internal communications between different operations. The general public might not understand what they are talking about but I expect everybody here has a science or engineering background and understands this stuff quite well. Or is that a bad assumption?
#30 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 02:06:16
Opportunity's egress is being broadcast live (right now) on NASA TV. They expect the wheels to hit the martian soil in about 3 hours from now. Hope everybody is watching.
#31 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-31 00:19:47
I attempted that little date trick before but it didn't work for me.
Oops, I forgot to mention that at the end of Wednesdays news briefing they mention that there was not going to be a briefing on Thursday. Here's Friday's briefing.
[rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e013004_nasa.rm]rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e013004_nasa.rm
So is anybody else going to watch Opportunity's egress live on NASA TV? It starts in just a couple of hours at 8:00AM GMT (3:00AM EST, 12 midnight PST).
#32 Re: Unmanned probes » Spirit & Opportunity *3* - ...continued from previous threads » 2004-01-29 02:57:58
Hey everybody,
I only found the New Mars website a little over a week ago while I was trying to find out where all the Mars enthusiasts were hanging out. I'm really glad to have found it.
I'm sure everybody here knows you can watch NASA TV on the web but I'm not sure if everybody knows about the daily news briefings where they tell the latest info on Spirit and Opportunity. They usually happen at 5:00PM GMT (12 noon EST, 9:00AM PST). If you can't catch them live, then you can watch them on the C-SPAN web site. C-SPAN archives them for about two weeks. You can find them at [http://www.c-span.org/VideoArchives.asp?z1=&PopupMenu_Name=Science/Technology&CatCodePairs=Issue,ST;]http://www.c-span.org/VideoAr....sue,ST;. To view them you need the Real Player from real.com. C-SPAN usually puts up a the new link to the program each day but if they don't you can just enter the next link in the Real Player "location" field.
C-SPAN didn't post a link for the last briefing, I think because the recording has very bad audio. Anyway here's the link for the last one.
[rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012804_nasa.rm]rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012804_nasa.rm
Here are the Real Player links for the past couple of days.
[rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012704_nasa.rm]rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012704_nasa.rm
[rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012604_nasa.rm]rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e012604_nasa.rm
You can see they are using Month Day Year (i.e. 012804 = January 28, 2004) for the link name so it's easy to figure out what the link would be for any specific day just in case they don't post the link.