Landing will be live November 26, 2018 8:00 PM
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…or the direct NASA feeds online (including a 360 feed!) here:
Plus the tube:
Mission info and summary site here:
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 7:20pm
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Anyone else watching it live right now?
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Fridge
November 26, 2018, 7:22pm
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Yup
Its a little early. I think I just heard that transport module separation occurs at about 40 minutes past the hour … so 20 more minutes.
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 7:31pm
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Yes, still a few minutes left. Right now they are previewing the mission.
Hope everything works as planned. A lot of people here in Germany at the DLR have been working on those instruments for a long time.
Really exciting!
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 7:35pm
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Btw Mars is pretty close right now, only 8 light minutes if I got that correctly. I think the average is over 12.
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Nice! Touchdown confirmed. That’s 6 mars points!
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piper
November 26, 2018, 7:54pm
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Touchdown confirmed! Amazing
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Fridge
November 26, 2018, 7:55pm
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And an unlocked skin in Surviving Mars
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 7:55pm
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Yeah looks like it worked so far.
Standby for data.
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The team lead is named Bruce Banner? Good job for those close up video camera people (how annoying would that be) he didn’t get mad if it cratered.
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Fridge
November 26, 2018, 8:01pm
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Waiting on the solar panels report. Did I miss it?
I don’t think so. The photo data was relayed by the Marco micro satellite that tagged along (and is now zooming past mars).
They just received the first X-band confirm from the deep space network, so the lander looks ok.
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Fridge
November 26, 2018, 8:04pm
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Solar panels to deploy by 5pm EST I think I heard.
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The guy that put the lens cover on last must have at least been a tiny bit tempted to put a picture of Matt Damon on it first, just for the laughs…
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Successful landing, awesome!
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 8:11pm
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Yeah deploying the solar panels will take some hours.
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Aginor
November 26, 2018, 8:12pm
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fearlessfrog:
Bruce Banner
I think his name is “Bantner” or something. But when I first heard the name I thought the same thing.
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