I don't get it. If they sent a film crew so we can watch live why did they have to send the robot? Can't the idiots with cameras just pick up some dirt and bring it back?

Not quite yet.

Hope the got the inches and centimeters straight.

/G-sensor right side up, too.

10 seconds now!

Anyone else watching it on NASA TV?

Face Guy not happy.

Wow, my very first chance to be filtpwned into saying "boobies". Good thing I'm not one of those kinds of trolls.

Though I will say, as the webmaster and a PR person for The Mars Society, I'll definitely be getting a kick out of these replies...and hopefully a safe landing.

About 18 minutes to landing...

Watching it now...c'mon Phoenix!

On what now?

Google time I guess.

This is where 55% of these missions fail....

starscream unavailable for comment.

Godspeed Phoenix!

Send back postcards from the aliens

I'm not sure these guys can steer

Doc Ok:

Anyone else watching it on NASA TV?


Yep.

Spaceflight Now Phoenix Mission Status (new window)

watching on Discovery. Miles O'Brien on Cnn can't STFU.

*unzips*

LETS DO THIS

On a completely unrelated note, my Boobies! on Fark was in this thread regarding the Genesis space probe:

Link (new window)

I was there for that and I'm here for this. If this one fails, it's all on me.

Directv Channel 283

It is a minute or so ahead of the webcast.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

I have it on now, and there are NASA dudes doing victory handshakes and high-fives and poses, but everyone seems dang busy and the voice is saying two minutes to something.

Oh~! They put up a spiffy NASA graphic. 11 mins to touchdown. 3:30ish until entry. Neat.

Seven minutes of terror is what I call the night I lost my virginity.

I was never invited to the parties where they played "Seven Minutes of Terror." :(

thanks for the link!

Like the Phoenix I rise
From the ashes of life
I don't need fortune or fame
Just some peace of mind

Like the Phoenix I fly
Leaving the lies behind
Future's golden for me
There is no one who can stop me now

MrHacks: 7 minutes of terror = EVERYBODY PANIC FOR THE NEXT 7 MINUTES!

Link (new window)

Live video feed.

\kinda boring now.
/hopefully they find cheese.
\owait is that the moon?

N. S. Radieaux: I was never invited to the parties where they played "Seven Minutes of Terror." :(

Join the club, we've got jackets.

i was 15 when the vikings landed. i remember they at first thought the photos showed a blue sky.

considering how much technology has come in 30 years and we're still nervous about actually landing without crashing, it's stunning we successfully landed two vikings on mars so many years ago.

Science Channel here.
Anybody see Xenu yet?

Watching now! Prove religion wrong!

Go Go Go!

Love it! Watching live is exciting. Fark the news not showing anything!

Does it move? Or will the lander just be stationary?

From everything I've seen it looks like no movey.

FTA:
"In the ideal scenario, "we evolve out of this cocoon and spread our wings and we turn into this beautiful butterfly on the surface," said Ed Sedivy, program manager at Lockheed Martin Corp."


Unless of course said cocoon hits the ground at several km/s. In which case the metaphorical bug guts will be naught but another smear on the windshield of the martian landscape.

/hope it makes it though, don't get me wrong

DD0
I don't get it

/ftfy

Marvin is going to blow that sucker out of the air with his X-19 space modulator...

Why is this important? I want a farking moon colony.

Peanuts!

Now 10 seconds to entry!

GonzoNihilist: DD0
I don't get it

/ftfy

I bet you are a blast to hang out with.

ScienceHD has it in HD right now. 748 on Cox.

albo: i was 15 when the vikings landed. i remember they at first thought the photos showed a blue sky.

considering how much technology has come in 30 years and we're still nervous about actually landing without crashing, it's stunning we successfully landed two vikings on mars so many years ago.

It is...but I'm not surprised we're still nervous about landing them safely. After all, hitting a moving target many, many millions of miles away with no human interaction is a hell of an engineering feat.

DFWPhotoGuy: Watching now! Prove religion wrong!
!

Get that shiat out of here. Don't even start.

nasa tv ftw

is the paint dry yet?

Allons-y, Alonso!

... and mark.

It might be landing near Fark.

Blackout!

Very close to entry...

/mark
//my penis named mark