OT - Opportunity has landed

[Intelligence3]

The second lander has landed successfully landed and sent a signal. w00t!

 

[Electrode]

Watching Nasa TV now. Sounds like it landed upside down.

 

[Spacehead]

Engineers confirm that the spacecraft is resting on its side. But the lander is designed to right itself during the petal opening sequence.

The latest info on both landers can be found here.

 

[BBRskeebercat]

thanks for the link spacehead!! Good stuff there!

 

[Intelligence3]

Thanks Spacehead. Great link.

 

[BBRskeebercat]

just finished watching the news briefing on this from JPL, and it sounded like things went better than hoped for!! They are replaying it now and here's the direct link for realone player - http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram

 

[titanmiller]

Watched it last night, awesome.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Electrode
Watching Nasa TV now. Sounds like it landed upside down.

Head engineer was a woman??

:Q

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Electrode
Watching Nasa TV now. Sounds like it landed upside down.

Head engineer was a woman??

:Q

Or TA Andy. He was bored last night.
:wine::wine::wine::wine:... hic







-edit-there are a bunch of pics available on the Spaceflight Now site i linked to above, starting at 4:25 AM

As the images were coming to Earth, rover scientist Steve Squyres said, "I will attempt no science analysis because it looks like nothing I've ever seen before in my life."

:Q