All Phoenix commentary is now being directed over here.

What is the exact peanut deployment sequence? I have my jar of peanuts, unopened. Am I supposed to wait until EDL, until we hear it succeed?

Wonder what that data is on the left screen at the back?

They have real time Doppler data and they are detecting Mars Gravity!!!

Checking in!

1 hour 38 minutes from Mars!

OK, good. I almost endng up spending the next little bit of this time on the phone to Comcast. Just after NASA TV here started the no-commentary coverage at 5pm my time, the screen went blank. All other channels were working, just not NASA TV.

I was actually working my way through the Comcast phone menu when it came back up just a couple of minutes ago.

-the other Doug

Kendal checking in... good luck everyone

phoenuts to be eaten BEFORE EDL, otherwise they don`t work!

My dog just landed in the couch...I'll face that as a good sign...

Got it; glad it's locked down. GO PHOENIX!!!!

Nix, I'm having breakfast at ths time (I woke up one hour ago). Champagne is next thou

my cats have been lying around here for days... yeah let's take it as a good sign

Ahh, cheers climber !!
Go Phoenix, GO!

Nico

People in mission control are beginning to jostle listlessly around.... understandable!

All set here, beer and peanuts.
Michael
Florida.

Last night I was just about to go to bed and there, believe it or not, was a little mouse swimming in the toilet. Improbable as it sounds our Cat must have brought it in just a few moments before and for some reason have dropped it in the toilet. I rescued it and set it free outside.
So an event that’s very improbable occurred and the little guy survived both my cat and a potential drowning to live another day. That’s my good omen.

1h30 to landing ERT

Robert

One of my blueberry bushes produced it's first ripe blueberries today. I'm taking this as a Sign.

Go Phoenix!

-Mike

Is the party in here? Where is everyone? Over at Ustream?

And I can't say Ustream without thinking of Ustrax

Here, the NASA TV stil does not play. How are yours? (Public Channel is supposed to start at 5 pm at GMT-5.)

Mines playing fine on the 500k stream

It's much better here, with good ol' friends ...
I got agoraphobia at freenode ... I must be getting old. :-)

Only watching NasaTV through a sluggish connection, so will appreciate comments from you lucky enough to get nasatv on cable.

Go Phoenix !!!

Listener, I'm watching NASA TV just fine... go here...

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html

No commentary yet, that starts at half past...

I'm getting NASA TV OK at this site:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html

Commentary starting in 3 minutes...

Video's gone down - hope this is not an omen.

Whichever NASA TV gets ported into my cable system had been running to no-commentary views of the control room, and now have a "coming up" slide for the beginning of commentary at 5:30.

Video has popped in and out for me a couple of times over the past half hour, I figure at this point that this is just NASA getting their feeds straight.

-the other Doug

Prob just prepping for start of commentary. Panic ye not!

Mark Lemmon just passed by spacEurope to thanks us all by the support and to tell us how things are going at SOC...

Video back now - slow down on the whisky

Getting sound now from NASA TV

Blood pressure rising dangerously

Sound's ok but images looks like a slide show. Must be A LOT watching

Still just a Coming Up screen at the nasatv web stream ...

Watching NASA TV - right now it's just has a documentary about the EDL sequence. No live coverage yet.

May I open my jar of peanuts now?

Playing an EDL interview video

Wow!!!

direct link to public feed -

http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

and the media feed

http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx

both play in QuickTime for mac fine side by side to the Phoenix Real Time Script....

less than an hour to go

Chemist... try refreshing your screen or try http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html

The EDL timeline graphic shows the landing at 4:53:36 pm. Column heading says "Eastern Time (Estimated)." The PAO person just corrected it, but...

-the other Doug

Checking in...

Peanuts being munched and beer is being drunk, anything else I can do to help?

J

Amazing...I can't quite understand how does spacEurope get way beyond the 1000 visitors number...
Guess the link at the mission's website got people mad...
And me wiiwiing...

Can one be here without peanuts or are they compulsory?
Enjoying Nasa's feed - clear as anything here.
..........7 minutes of hell..........WOWEE..........

Really starting to physically feel the tension now Don't know how those folks directly involved with the mission cope with this .. if it were me there, I think i'd need some valium.

NASA-TV is just showing a really cool computer simulation based on where it should be at each point. It looks live and not part of the HUD movie. Anyone know if that's available?

-Mike

Now under an hour - pop the peanuts

1 hour to cruise stage separation.

I read somewhere only 1 trench will be dug. Is this true?

Thanks Stu, now it works again ...
Got to get some coffee now ...

Peanut jar opened. Peanuts of choice: Honey roasted peanuts.

I opened my peanuts a couple of hours ago and have been munching them slowly. I'll have plenty to last through the landing.

Honey-roasted, m'self.

-the other Doug

1h to landing ERT

We are go for peanut deployment. Initiate the packet sequence.