Phoenix Mission to Mars

[iceman (Mike)]

Where are the pictures!?

[Liz]

some pics are coming thru of Mars soil/landers feet/solar panels!!

[Liz]

On nasa Tv

[Lester]

Awesome, thanks for the link Johnathan.

What an exciting moment.

[iceman (Mike)]

See them now - how very cool!

What an awesome achievement.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

pic

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...ain/index.html

[acropolite (Phil)]

I'm 55 years young and it's It's amazing to think that in my lifetime, man has made his first venture in to space, landed on the moon and can safely land an unmanned probe on a distant planet.

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Amazing Stuff ... great to see they made it.
Unfortunately my Video does not work properly on my work PC, so no live coverage for me.
Will have to watch the replay when I get home !

[tornado33]

Heres one of the images from Phoenix
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/image...ery/lg_437.jpg
Ive drawn around the odd feature, a pile of fine dust just left there. Wonder if it is a tiny dune, or dust pushed there by the landing thrusters?
Scott

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, check out the current image on the Pheonix mission main page:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...-20080526.html

Shows Pheonix parachuting down to the surface as captured by the Mars Orbiter. That is absolutely amazing!

[leinad (Dan)]

I don't know if its just me but the soil looks lumpy and wet, like its been raining. Amazing pics; but why are they now only providing cropped med. quality images on the website ???

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Wow, check out the current image on the Pheonix mission main page:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...-20080526.html

Shows Pheonix parachuting down to the surface as captured by the Mars Orbiter. That is absolutely amazing!

That is a truely amazing image. The technology just keeps getting better and better.

I wonder how long it will be before imaging a spacecraft during the decent phase on Mars will be possible by amateurs

[iceman (Mike)]

I am so blown away by the parachute image..

It's featured again (with a landing shot) on APOD today:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080527.html

[Deeno]

Originally Posted by edwardsdj

I wonder how long it will be before imaging a spacecraft during the decent phase on Mars will be possible by amateurs

'Bout as long as it takes to get an amateur in orbit I reckon

These images ARE truly amazing........and it only cost four times what the NSW Labour government spent on advertising during the last year

[iceman (Mike)]

Another amazing picture, today - showing the lander on the surface as pictured by the HiRISE camera.

SpaceWeather
Pheonix main page

I am still blown away!

[iceman (Mike)]

This image shows the lander, the heat shield and the parachute!

Pheonix labelled image

[iceman (Mike)]

oh my god, this has to be the most amazing image of the parachuting, with a crater in the background - again as captured by HiRise.

Descent picture

That's my favourite so far!

btw, have a look at all these images plus more at:
Pheonix Images page

[sheeny (Al)]

Here's the latest release about Phoenix from Nature:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0805....2008.857.html

Get it while access is free.

Al.

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

They are amazing images to be sure !
The crater image would have to be my Favourite too

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

That image with the crater in the background is utterly amazing. I'm so surprised there is no motion blur in these images of the decent.