Phoenix - Mars landing preview webcast

[dlavery]

2-1/2 hours to go. Live blog from the landing team. Brent Shockley, from the Phoenix landing team, will be updating frequently during the day. The final landing event sequence is:

Event                                        Time (UTC)	Time (PST)
Cruise Stage Separation               23:39:17	16:39:17
Turn-to-Entry                              23:39:47	16:39:47
Entry                                         23:46:17	16:46:17
Nominal Plasma Black out start      23:47:05	16:47:05
Nominal Plasma Black out end       23:49:05	16:49:05
Nominal Heatshield Deployment     23:50:12	16:50:12
Nominal Lander Leg Deployment    23:50:22	16:50:22
Nominal Lander Separation           23:52:50	16:52:50
Nominal Touch Down                    23:53:33	16:53:33

-dave

[DCA Fan]

Under 30 minutes until landing!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ Webcast

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by DCA Fan

Under 30 minutes until landing!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ Webcast

I am watching also...if you arn't watching you should do it NOW!

[MissInformation]

I swear, I can see stress waves radiating through the air there...

This is really exciting! (and it beats mowing the lawn) Go NASA!

Heidi

[Barry Bonzack]

Parachute deployed!

Edit: and jettisoned!

Edit: TOUCHDOWN!

[Ian Curtis]

The Phoenix has landed.

Amazing!

EDIT: What's the timetable now? I know they have to wait 15 minutes before they deploy the solar array to make sure they don't get dusty, but when do they continue to recieve additional information?

[EricH]

Down safe. Now to analyze the soil!

[Marc P.]

Congratulations NASA/JPL/LM on a successful landing!

Here's to some good science!

[acdcfan259]

That was awesome when he was calling out the height. So much suspense.

[TheOtherGuy]

Congrats on the landing from the U of A!

There were so many people here that we had to open up our own laptop for extra viewing...

[Michelle692]

Originally Posted by acdcfan259

That was awesome when he was calling out the height. So much suspense.

Yes, it was! You could hear it slowing down... and I was totally sitting on the edge of my seat...

But yay! That was exciting!

[MissInformation]

... and the joy in that room more than made up for the stress! Way to go to everyone who worked on this mission!

Heidi

[artdutra04]

Congrats to the Phoenix Lander Team!

Now there's science to do, experiments to run, and research to be done.

[Joe G.]

Congratulations to all involved.

[dlavery]

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