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05-26-2008, 09:28 AM
|  | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Mars Landing Successful
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The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 million-mile) journey from Earth.
The probe is equipped with a robotic arm to dig for water-ice thought to be buried beneath the surface.
It will begin examining the site for evidence of the building blocks of life in the next few days.
A signal confirming the lander had reached the surface was received at 2353 GMT on 25 May (1953 EDT; 0053 BST on 26 May).
Engineers and scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California clapped and cheered when the landing signal came through. "Phoenix has landed - welcome to the northern plain of Mars," a flight controller announced.
| Pretty cool stuff. The Phoenix landed in the northern Mars arctic and is the first lander to be in that region. Bloomberg.com: News BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Historic pictures sent from Mars NASA - Phoenix
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05-26-2008, 09:44 AM
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 : 38 th | | | I watched it, well most of it before falling asleep.
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05-26-2008, 10:02 AM
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| | | Hopefully they find some useful information lol. Crazy to think that a few decades ago, most people had not the slightest clue about space, and now its nothing new at all.
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05-26-2008, 10:04 AM
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| | | Hopefully, they can find plenty of ice. If there's ice, it can be cracked into its base components of hydrogen and oxygen. if there's water, oxygen and hydrogen, we can send a manned mission without having to lug all that along.
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05-26-2008, 10:11 AM
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cool stuff, i didnt hear any of this on US news lol
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05-26-2008, 10:17 AM
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| | | Fox was covering it last night, but I wasn't paying too much attention.
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05-26-2008, 10:20 AM
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: 28 th | | | well... i also dont watch the news and the cable box in my room is broken at the moment.. so, maybe that did it
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05-26-2008, 10:51 AM
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05-26-2008, 10:53 AM
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| | | Gi' dose peeepooo AYUH!
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05-26-2008, 11:04 AM
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: 28 th | | | -sttaarrtt the reeeactorrr quuuiiadd-
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