January 3, 2004

more to come

Next major event in roughly half an hour is the venting of coolant which isn't needed for the surface mission.

Additional commentary from Rob Manning, EDL lead:
Minor adjustments have been made in the last couple of days to account for atmospheric temperature changes from duststorms. Enabled pyro switches a bit earlier than planned. Several improvements have been made since Pathfinder. We have a descent camera and small rockets in the backshell to help stabilize the descent if necessary. This descent is all automatic. No intervention from Earth.

Posted by asa at 7:24 PM

 

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