11-May-2008, 11:36 PM
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2 weeks to landing
NASA Phoenix mission news: Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars. After targeting its certified landing site with a trajectory, or flight path, correction maneuver on April 10, the spacecraft's performance has been stable enough for the mission's operators to forgo the scheduled opportunity for an additional trajectory correction maneuver on May 10 and focus on the next such opportunity, on May 17.
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The first possible confirmation time for the spacecraft's landing on May 25 will be at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The event would have happened 15 minutes and 20 seconds earlier on Mars, and then radio signals traveling at the speed of light will take 15 minutes and 20 seconds to cross the distance from Mars to Earth on that day.
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Landing time (approximate):
Sunday, May 25, 1636 PDT
Sunday, May 25, 1936 EDT
Sunday, May 25, 2336 UTC
Landing, Earth-received time (estimated):
Sunday, May 25, 1653 PDT
Sunday, May 25, 1953 EDT
Sunday, May 25, 2353 UTC
14 days to landing
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Reminder: mission briefing Tuesday May 13, 0800 PDT (see above)
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