>>The NASA InSight Mars landing is today a little before 3pm. Everyone cross your fingers!
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>>There is a live stream on youtube for it...
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>>https://www.youtube.com/user/JPLraw/live
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>Thanks for the reminder.
>It would be good if contact with Opportunity could be re-established(none since June 10). I have monitored the rover website since the launch of Opportunity and Spirit.

Looks like InSight landed successfully - which is in itself pretty amazing if you ask me. A few more hours for the dust to settle and fire-up the solar power -- hopefully everything will function properly.

As for Opportunity -- yes I think they've sent over 250 recovery commands since June 10th and from what I understand it has several issues- one of which is a ow-power fault -- hopefully with the ending of the global dust storms on Mars perhaps it will come back to life.