Congratulations to everyone working on the mission. Enormously exciting and just amazing how JPL could engineer the lander to touch down safely.
Check this out. This afternoon on the LPL Phoenix website is this image captured by a "telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25." (LPL is the UA's Department of Planetary Sciences
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)
The full story: "Camera On Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing"
My friend Hank shared these links for Live Briefings and replays on NASA TV: MS Media Player | Real Player
| Quicktime
Oh, and we now have 30 videos and 1 audio track on the Phoenix Mars mission iTunes U site. Miguel Young at Apple wrote that he trying to get the site some additional exposure. I keep checking iTunes U's main page - nothing yet - maybe tomorrow. I think the UA mission video specialists will be adding more as they are able to make it available.
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