(9:26) Wayne: this is data that Opportunity transported to MGS during landing sequence that was relayed back to Earth.
(9:25) Flight MGS MOC has received data.
(9:24) Wayne: approximately 20 minutes after touchdown still seeing strong signal from craft.
(9:23) Rob: signal still moving up and down but I'm having a hard time believing we're still rolling. I think I win the bet about basepetal down :) (?)
(9:22) +Y petal down is reported.
(9:21) No fault tones! (applause)
(9:21) Wayne: Receiving simple tones indicating that the vehicle landed with force of between 2 and 3 Gs.
(9:20) Wayne: vehicle in motion for the last 5 minutes evidence by signal increasing and decreasing rate. Not inconceivable that it could roll for a very long time or it could be teetering on an edge.
(9:19) Got our first tone.
(9:18) Rob: signal still going up and down by 10db. Could be a very slow roll or tipping very slowly. A very slow frequency motion.
(9:16) Rob: I think we stopped rolling. Take that back, we're still rolling.
(9:14) Rob: Flight, we are *still* rolling on the surface of Mars!
(9:12) Rob: We're still rolling, very slowly.
Wayne: We still see evidence of rolling.
Rob Manning: We're rolling on Mars, slowly. You can see the signals rising and falling. (remember that they said they'd be monitoring both poles on the antenna, something they didn't do for Spirit? well, I think that gave them much better data on the rolling).
MGS MOC reports that MGS saw a minimum of 2.5 minutes of data after landing.
Rob: Seeing signal on RCP drop and rising on the LCP. May be pointed away from Earth again.
Flight MGS MOC did not see further evidence of UHF and are dropping locks now.
Stanford has not gotten any UHF signal.
We have great and holding signals on the ground.
The lander is alive on the surface of Mars.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
