Phoenix Mars Landing - LANDED!

[Dark Fact]

Bah, the pictures are in Black and White.  I want full color redness!

[guyjin]

Bah, the pictures are in Black and White.  I want full color redness!

according to the press conference I'm watching right now, they had to use the lowest res and color in order to get back a picture today.

[Tatsujin]

i wonder what kind of transfer speed they're using between earth and phoenix?

[guyjin]

i wonder what kind of transfer speed they're using between earth and phoenix?

Computers that go into space are on par with 10 year old computers when they launch... so probably 56k or so.

[Tatsujin]

but it's not just a question of technonlogy age but also of the distance between. anyhow phoenix is 277,652,500 km away from us, trend increasing (ca.100km/sec).

[Joe Redifer]

now some stones finally got their private shadow dispenser to lie in.

Ha ha yeah, those rocks no longer have to worry about getting cancer from too much sun exposure!

i wonder what kind of transfer speed they're using between earth and phoenix?

I heard they are wiring Mars for DSL soon.

[Pcenginefx]

Well the lander is shooting the data to one of the satellites we have orbiting Mars, and then that shoots us the data at the speed of light.

Anyone else notice this?  In one of the photos there is a white object sticking out on the distance.  NASA still has no official comment on it yet (and won't until we get higher res photos)

http://fawkes3.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=440&cID=8 (you can zoom into the photo a few times).

[Tatsujin]

i wasn't refer to the speed of the communicationwaves which the phoenix/orbitsatellite is sending to us, but more about how much bps the communication is?

btw: nice thing that white stick over there. wonder what it is. a statue of saint maria may be?

[Sparky]

ya i noticed that white thing as well when i was touring the shots with my girl, but did not think to much of it  …weird.

[ceti alpha]

Yeah, it looks like some sort of reflection or something.

[nodtveidt]

It's an ALIEN! RUN! IT'S GONNA EAT PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111




*cough*

[Joe Redifer]

Looks more like a glitch in the digital photo.  The white seems to be too perfect, as if someone drew a line on it in MS Paint.

Anyway the text said something about stereo imaging.  Give us the 3D versions!

[Tatsujin]

It's an ALIEN! RUN! IT'S GONNA EAT PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111

unfortunately, phoenix can't run! not even sneak!

[Necromancer]

i wonder what kind of transfer speed they're using between earth and phoenix?

From a media kit on Phoenix:

The helical antenna and a monopole UHF antenna, also mounted on the deck, will be used to relay telecommunications during the months of operation after landing. The lander can send data at rates of 8,000 bits per second, 32,000 bits per second or 128,000 bits per second.

A.K.A. - pretty frickin' slow, though at top speed it's twice as fast as a dial-up modem.

Anyone else notice this?  In one of the photos there is a white object sticking out on the distance.  NASA still has no official comment on it yet (and won't until we get higher res photos)

Mars is sick of getting probed, so it's giving us the finger. 

[Pcenginefx]

They are saying that in a full day, it is possible to get between 10MB to 14MB of data back from the lander.