Successful touchdown

Some peanuts left, anybody ?

thank you Mars for letting this one pass through..

We need an emoticon for tears of joy...wow, just wow is all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely awesome stuff, right by the book!

Did I hear correctly they're saying a quarter of a degree tilt?

yes, 1/4 degree

Gonna go ahead and call that "flat", then.....

Phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never doubted it for a second!

That was simply amazing, my first live landing on another planet

Those last seconds were scary, it went so fast i thought it was going too fast ! That was beautiful

Edit : no peanuts here, but i'm eating a Mars bar to celebrate this !

I suspect the last 100m down were a little longer than in the EDL simulation, isn it ?

I hear ya...I might have to make an appointment with a proctologist tomorrow...

259 (!!!) online at UMSF

I hope this is in the South direction

Me too. Did I say 55%? Must have been a typo. I meant 100%.

273 Visitors now at UMSF ... WOW!

God, can't believe it! I'm almost in tears!

This implies a (probably) very flat landing site. Maybe similar to Doug's rendering?

Perfectly aligned East-West as well! Perfect!!!

Bed time for me, don't look at the pics till I get back in the morning!

James

WOW! Im so happy. Drinking a beer to touchdown!

Rui and I won the poll

Bed time for me too in an hour or two - that is, if I'm able to fall to sleep. Will probably have to wake up in the middle of the night to check for any images .

So glad it's afternoon here...don't think my pulse rate's gonna go down for a few hours yet...man!!!!!!

Never doubted it although I wiiwiied a lot...

A Fantastic time to be Alive!!!

Play the EPIC!!!

"Solar arrays open" is listed as occurring at 00:06:33 ERT (UTC). Does anyone remember when confirmation that this worked is due?

Completely flat only landing site but still don't know how are they arounds!!!

Wait for few minutes for a possible transmission of pictures.

The solar panels will deploy a little after the touchdown. This pause allows the dust kicked up during the landing to settle and not collect on the arrays.

It landed at a 1/4 degree tilt

Peter is talking about extended mission! Mood is high, very high.
What a thing it was to share this with you all.

Edited : a big thanks to administrators an a thought for Emily having her server down. I hope you enjoyed the landing anyway

I was reminded of this little gem (in case you haven't seen it yet):

Springtime on Mars

Wonderful. Congratulations to the Phoenix team for bringing Mars closer to us

Wish they'd give us some comments from Rob Manning.

TTT

Amazing how that tension and anxiety quite literally drains away when you hear "TOUCHDOWN"

Someone remind me now, when can we possibly expect images?

My guess would be during the Mars Odyssey relay that begins about 01:43UTC....

What a glorious night !
Shall we get solar panel confirmation any minute now ?

Little shy of 90 min from now, Dan.

I believe it and I am in tears.... happens everytime...

WOW... those last few minutes went like seconds!!!!! to me... could hardly keep up on my checklist....

Can't wait for those first thumbnail pics.... remember MER??? This should be very flat (so few rocks, Doug????? ) but just to see those solar arrays fanned out will be beautiful.....

now for that shot of Jack... CHEERS!!!!!

Craig

Post landing poll delayed 10 minutes.

I second climber's comments - kudos to the UMSF team for letting us share this! The site worked smoothly right through landing. And thanks to dmuller for the great simulation.

Oh yeah, and, according to my formula, Mars currently occupies 180 degrees from the viewpoint of Phoenix!

Fantastic evening everyone, just fantastic... and what a BRILLIANT way of experiencing it with everyone here!

No WAY I'm going to bed before seeing those first pictures...

I wont be able to sleep anyway. Have to see those pics...

This is an unMANNINGspaceflight

Then I'll delay going to sleep until then (I wouldn't be able to fall asleep anyway ).

The first powered landing on Mars for 32 years. That's a lot of time.

And next time... a completely new system for powered descent... SKYCRANE

except for the RADs on on pathfinder and MER

Yes - I can attest to the 32 year time span, having been at JPL for the Viking 2 landing...

This give good mood for skycrane.
1- they'll do a lot of studies since this will be THE futur landing system
2- Only the last meters will change as compared to full powered descent

Congrats to the Phoenix team!Great job guys!

And I remember following the Viking mission as a child. No live coverage back then, at least not where I live. Now I get to see everything live. How things have changed...

I had to switched from Discovery Channel to my computer to watch NASA TV to rid myself of their commentary! A lot more exciting on NASA TV!

I'm still quite emotional. Landing on an alien world does that to the soul.

Woohoo! Wonderful! Can't believe how happy these moments are.

Has somebody already put the last few minutes on youtube so we can relive those wonderful moments of telemetry-bliss!