David Herrold

Mars Phoenix has landed!

Posted by Dave | Filed under Science, Technology

I’ve been following the progress of the Mars Phoenix lander for a few days as is got closer and closer to Mars. I’m happy to report that is has landed safely on the north pole of Mars. It will eventually send photos, and data from ice core samples in an attempt to learn more about our mysterious red planet.

Congratulations to the ground crew and everyone involved. Nice work.

Learn more here:

UPDATE: Images from the lander here.
UPDATE 2: According to a NYTimes article Twitter’s @MarsPhoenixe is actually Veronica McGregor, news services managers at NASA’s JPL facility in CA.

Of course, the messages are not coming from Mars. Instead, Veronica McGregor, the news services manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been playing the part of Phoenix each night after she gets home from work, forwarding questions to the science team and then posting answers.

NASA mission site
Follow mission updates on Twitter
Wikipedia entry on the Mars Phoenix

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