Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, 2008 @09:59AM from the entry-descent-and-landing dept.

AFP has a good summary of the pre-touchdown jitters the Phoenix Mars Lander crew is living through. The spacecraft has been under way for 10 months. If the landing goes according to plan — and only about half of the three dozen such attempts have — mission controllers at the University of Arizona will receive radio signals from the Martian surface at 23:53 GMT. Here's the Mars mission home. You can (in theory) track the lander here, but at the moment the JPL Solar System Simulator is "experiencing technical difficulties."

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Congrats to everyone involved! by Mortiss · 2008-05-25 11:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Always great to see that humans can do something other than destroy!
1. Re:Congrats to everyone involved! by MsGeek · 2008-05-25 12:00 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Always great to see that humans can do something other than destroy!
  
  Seconded. Very well done, JPL! I'm proud of my geeky homeboys.
  
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