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Pathfinder
To Land On Mars This Week
NASA will offer near-continuous access to these events for the general public. In addition to standard Space Shuttle-related mission activities, NASA TV will provide extensive live programming on July 4-6 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. Internet sites are accessible for status reports and imagery. The latest comprehensive schedule for NASA TV, and updates to it as events progress, is available from NASA Headquarters; JPL; Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; and, Kennedy Space Center, FL. It also is available on-line at the following URL: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/jsc/tvsked/tvsked.txt
Extensive information on Mars Pathfinder, including status reports and images, is available from the JPL World Wide Web home page at URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews The Mars Pathfinder project also maintains a home page at URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mpfmir These sites may receive heavy traffic on the days close to landing, but Internet users around the world can follow the mission by way of multiple local mirror sites that are now on-line, with links listed at the Web site above. The Internet sites feature updates on mission activities and will provide Pathfinder photographs of the Martian surface, once they become available. The sites also will feature a bird's eye view of the Mars Pathfinder mission operations area at JPL, via a live video camera feed that is updated every 15 minutes. NASA Television is broadcast on the satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, C
Band, 85 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880.0 MHz, vertical polarization,
audio monaural at 6.8 MHz. |
People around the
world are waiting for the landing of NASA's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft on
July 4, the U.S. Independence Day holiday.
