C/5 = (F-32)/9

and I've carried that in my head for over 40 years !

Also (as was requested here) they are now sorting images by sol

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/imageCategories_lander.php

New images arriving.

Is this solid ice exposed by the retro rockets under the lander?

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=836&cID=25

P.S. I am starting to wonder if many of the smooth cobbles around the lander are actually hunks of dusty ice and not 'rocks' after all. In the press briefing they did make note of how the 'rocks' were lighter in color than the soil and were flat shaped...

Now that the arm is deployed, did anyone catch the science plan for today, Sol 5 ?

Could someone point me to a thread or link that compares Pheonix's main camera with MER's Pancam?

Thanks in advance!

Kung

not sure what this means:
Diopter (filters R6 and R7) best focus at 1.2 m, in focus from 1 to 1.4 m

Either the NASA TV stream is bad today or (much more likely) my in-laws' Internet service is crap

Either the NASA TV stream is bad today or (much more likely) my in-laws' Internet service is crap, so I had a terrible experience trying to view today's press briefing, and I missed much of the discussion of the planned activities for this sol. Can anyone post a summary here? All I caught was, they are planning on doing some color imaging with RAC of those platy things underneath the lander, to try to figure out if it's duricrust or ice.

--Emily

Can anyone post a summary here?

--Emily

Phoenix - in TallovisioN - WAY more horizon relief than I was expecting.

Well I've been away for a few hours so only just seen this - EXCELLENT!

OMFG Im gonna need that swear jar now .

It looks like the phoenix website was hacked.


EDIT: Now its back to normal, it said that it was hacked by vital.

solar panels: yes, they'll get dusty. But friendly dust devils
have been a huge help to keeping rovers' panels clean. I hope to meet a few! 09:59 PM May 26, 2008 from web

Those three knobbly blue-green/white-ish "pebbles" just above the roller's path look different from the rocks others, don't they?

I've been having a lot of trouble getting onto the University of Arizona Phoenix website (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/). Are Phoenix related sites really under denial of service attacks? Who would do that? What would be the point?

I've been having a lot of trouble getting onto the University of Arizona Phoenix website (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/). Are Phoenix related sites really under denial of service attacks? Who would do that? What would be the point?

Well,I hope this guy is proud of himself.

It's like you go down and look through your legs, so the image when it came back was upside down. What we see is astounding, because looking south we see illuminated surface of soil, you can see shadow of leg struts on surface, and in foreground you see dark shadowed ground underneath the lander in shadow. A large part of the surface is uncovered by the exhaust of the thrusters. It is tabular, shiny, and smooth, and this is a strong indication that we are looking at the icy table just covered by a few centimeters of soil. The thrusters during the landing uncovered this part. And you can see some down grade from the foot to the center of the image. The purpose of this image was to look at the third leg. If you follow the shadows of the legs, you can see that the shadow is bent, strongly indicating the gradient in the surface, the soil is several centimeters higher than the smooth whitish surface. Clearly indicating that the surface is uncovered by the thrusters. The fact that you see relatively large parts being flat indicates a table of ice. So wherever we will be digging, we will hit ice after uncovering a few centimeters of soil. At top of image you can see three thrusters which were used during the landing.

Peter: We're doing 60 Mb per pass, 2 Odyssey passes per day, twice as much as we were offered. Starting to compress images less and take more filters. Even with non-use of MRO, we're still data rich.

King of Hearts is way to the left, just ot the left of national park line, for next 2 or 3 days we'll be doing digging operations.

We brought down web page to fix problem, but didn't lose anything.

Uwe: try to look for changes. We already repeated observation, but we don't expect to see differences on short interval. The sublimation rate may be a few microns per day. This depends on model you take, whether you add some ice or you lose some ice. It depends on wind velocity

Observation for today, high priority we introduce some additional observations of first leg, where we saw patch we now think is ice. This patch we can get close enough so that we can use color LEDs and can produce an RGB image which means we can produce a color image. We can tell albedo of a particular patch and give us much more confidence in decision whether this is really ice or not.