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Originally Posted by antoniseb
Out of curiosity, do you know if that is the landing time, or the time that we will find out about the landing here on Earth (several light-minutes away)?
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No idea. It is extracted from the
University of Arizona Landing Countdown clock.
My guess is that it is actual time, a moment in mission elapsed time, extracted from a timeline schedule, and we'll get our confirmation later at whatever lightspeed allows.
But, in brief searches I haven't found a mission event timeline, so that countdown clock was all I could estimate a landing time on. It all depends on how they decided to implement that feature.
Code includes
Code:
so.addVariable("label","LANDING");
//so.addVariable("yr",2008);
//so.addVariable("mon",5);
//so.addVariable("day",25);
//so.addVariable("hr",16);
//so.addVariable("min",36);
But, like you asked, what is that time? (And my estimate is a second off because my computer clock was not well-synced when I was figuring.)