Phoenix landed and now pictures relayed by orbiters - activities relayed by cell phone

Well watched the JPL responses to the Phoenix landing on NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

And you folks started telling me you were watching too.
Some even by Cell Phone.  :-)
- LRK -

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Daniel Fischer to me

Have a look at http://qik.com/video/86710 - a cell phone
video shot by a congressman from inside mission control.
Welcome to the 21st century ...

Dan
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Wow, we have come a long way since the scientists usually held their
data until they published their papers.

NASA Ames thought they had done real good when it only took a short
time to get an image of Jupiter constructed after Pioneer 10 flew by
back on December 3, 1973.

I thought we did good with Lunar Prospector when I got to tail the
last 5 minutes of data and send it to the Lunar Prospector web site
for display.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/

I wasn't allowed to put my PC on the secure work station Local Area
Network, so had to have a Micro VAX grab five minute chunks of data
and then I could copy that and play it out at the same rate it was
coming from the Moon. Go back and grab the next 5 minute chunk and
play it back. (Oops, when Lunar Prospector went out of sight behind
the Moon you got to see the same five minutes of data repeated over
and over again until it came out and we picked up real time data.
Shhhsh, don't tell anyone.)

Now look what we have.  A Congressman from Texas, wandering around at
JPL Operations with his cell phone and sending live shots of what was
going on and hobnobbing with the folks there.
http://qik.com/
http://qik.com/johnculberson
http://qik.com/video/86710


Thanks much Dan for the heads up.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://qik.com/video/86710
JPL - Mars Landing - Live from the Control Room
By johnculberson on May 25, 2008  |  208 views
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jeff_foust   Culberson still relaying video from the control room;
an unusual perspective and technical approach:
http://qik.com/johnculberson    about 2 hours ago  from twitterrific

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http://qik.com/video/86763
Live from the Mars Landing
By johnculberson on May 26, 2008  |  157 views

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John Culberson

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http://culbersonforcongress.com/

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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