In any case, the commands have to be sent about 10 min before we want them to execute, due to the time it take s for the commands to get to Mars. The test ran all of last week and ended on Friday, so I had the weekend to rest up. But, yes, I'm still kinda tired. It's hard to turn your schedule around like that, especially for a few days. The commands are tailored to the spacecraft.
Different people do different things to stay calm.
There are a lot of bad jokes, and people eat the weirdest things sometimes, either for good luck or just from nervousness. The first planned pictures include a shot of the rover as it's clamped down on the petal, and the immediate area around the lander, so we can determine if there is room to deploy the ramps for the rover to run down. The only coordination between MPF and MGS will be that MGS will take many pictures of the MPF landing site. This way we'll have close-up images and remote pictures of the same area, which will help us to interpret remote images of areas for which we don't have up close and personal info. We're hoping that we'll be able to deploy at least one of the ramps.