US Phoenix Lands On Mars

By on May 28, 2008

NASA’S Phoenix landed on Mars Sunday, May 25, 2008, 4:53 P.M. , after a 10-month, 679 million – kilometer journey. The Phoenix Mars Lander joins in a 90-day mission study of Mar’s northern polar region to see if the red planet possesses raw ingredients needed for life to emerge.

Images sent back by Phoenix shows a landscape similar in appearance to icy ground in the Earth’s arctic regions. Scientists are dazzled with the first-ever glimpse of Mar’s high northern polar region.


” This is a scientist’s dream, right here on this landing site,” said Peter Smith, principal investigator of the University of Arizona, Tucson, in a post-landing conference.

“Everything just worked like a charm,” said Barry Goldstein, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory project manager.

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