Brrrr!!!! So cold !!!! Welcome to Mars!

Yes !!!
Here's to the good people at NASA and everybody contributing to their enormous efforts.

Congrats guys !!

Good grief

I have a confession to make. I had no peanuts, so I was eating cheddar flavored potato chips.

did I hear someone say 40 or 14 degree tilt????

0.25 degree tilt?

Thanks to everyone who created simulations, feeds, etc. This was incredible fun.

Excellent! This was very exciting!
Hail Phoenix, "welcome on an other planet" .

* * * * 00.53.52: TOUCHDOWN * * * *

00.54.55: Phoenix radio off.


01.06: SOLAR ARRAYS OPEN
01.28: MRO data playback begins

01.30: Flight Operations post-landing poll.

01.30: Mars Express playback (43 mins)

02.43: FIRST IMAGES EXPECTED!

...........However its bed for me - tis late here but I'm so proud to have been present.

At my site we have 150% margin on peanuts...

P.S. Sorry - timings are for UK - got from Stu's blog - Biyee

Don't know the significance of it, but I heard someone exclaim: "quarter degree tilt."

edit: yeah, that's it! 1/4 degree tilt!

Absolutely brilliant thanks to all for helping co-ordinate all the timings.
Watching the simulation at the same time as watching NASA tv was great and the music went well with the comentary.
Phew!
Well done to all. lots of fun to follow
Roy

that's right, 0.25 deg tilt

yes !!

0.25 degree tilt confirmed !!

awaiting solar array deploy

According to project manager Phoenix is almost exactly on azimuth orientation - EW

>0.25 degree tilt confirmed !!

That's flat. I wonder if we'll see any rocks at all.

TTT

What with the flatness and the I advise everyone to examine the first images of the footpads when they come down for some anomalous red footwear.

I think someone must have laid a concrete slab for Phoenix to Land on to get just 0.25 degrees of tilt. No chance of rocks under any of the feet!!!

Hey climber, good to see you again!

I only have orange juice, but it's the spirit of the thing that counts

Now all the excitement is over it’s the long quiet wait till those first images arrive. Its 1:30am here in the UK but there is no going to bed for this space cadet. I couldn’t think of going to bed before I get my first look at Green Valley. Got to see just how flat and featureless it really. God it’s nice to be down

Just wanna confirm - it is 6:43pm PDT that the first images are expected. I have a few friends coming over to check them out and I want to be sure I gave them the right time.

Same here Alex, no way I'm turning in until Ive seen those first pics...!

I believe Peter Smith was giving peanuts to the people in the control room if you were watching on Nasa TV during EDL.Its great to be on Mars again!

I've tried to switch sleeping hours and I 1/2 succeed
I've got to leave home in another 2h20 minutes to catch a plane and I'm sure the pictures will be down by then
They HAVE too. Mind Phoenix, we know where you are (I mean, at least Tim53 must know it )

Based on how things have gone so far, I'd guess that's exactly dead center of the landing elipse. But we'll find out soon enough

Emily is transmitting an impromptu news conference on ustream

I was able to post a bit of what the experience at Kuiper Space Sciences was at my blog at http://tuvas21.blogspot.com , it was pretty boring really, but, well, yah... I was able to get more information from there then I was from web sources, although it was basically a play of NASA TV.

BTW, I do know at least one of the Tucson channels had live coverage, I just don't know which one...

The New York Times posted an article about the successful landing. I do not know if it has already been posted here.

The way I understand it is that at that time the images will be coming into JPL and
any chance for us to see them will be on NASA TV shots of the screens at JPL.

They will be on full display at the press briefing (formerly scheduled for 9pm pacific time but
now the NASA TV site says: ""9:30 p.m. - Mars Phoenix Lander Briefing - First Downlink of Data - JPL")

I wish they'd shut up about the peanuts. We ate peanuts at the Mars Polar Lander
arrival - they didnt work.

I'm really glad this looks like it went well.

Just saw a snipit of News about the Phoenix landing on Sky News. Don;t know if they carried it live

NOW you tell me...I'm personally not far from producing Snickers Bars for the next week...

I think that the MPL disaster was due to a conversion mixup -- you were supposed to eat CIRCUS peanuts!

Well, you can't say they didn't work this time!

This is why silly superstitions have no place in science and technology -- now I'm going to have to steer clear of candy bars for a while! :-)

--Greg

Congratulations NASA and JPL! My whole family watched it on NASA TV. Fantastic! Got to go to see the first post-landing briefing now.

How about using Imperial units of measure?

Oh! I just now got it!

Pictures!

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=7

Awesome, This is awesome. Mars, nasa, the internet. A great combination!

From Mars to my living room, wow.

Cool pictures

...yes, my apologies! I REALLY shouldn't drink beer & post...

^
I know the feeling!

Utopia Planitia without the rocks...

Congrats to djellison for pegging the terrain, and most of all to the Phoenix team for getting us here. What would we do without you?

-J.