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Re: Phoenix - Mars landing preview webcast
The spacecraft is down, and apparently level and safe. If all has gone as planned, the solar arrays have deployed, the camera mast has deployed, and the camera is operating. Hopefully, first images should be coming in within the next few minutes during the first communications pass. These first images will be to verify array deployment, and may include some of the footprint around the lander legs. More scenic views of the surrounding landscape will come in the next few passes, later tonight and tomorrow.
-dave
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My OTHER CAR is still on Mars!!!
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