Phoenix Mars Mission...

[Ric]

Just saw the first picture on the NASA site, very interesting looking area, lot's of little dunes everywhere.

Looking forward to the colour pictures.

Cheers

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Hey guys

I watched the broadcast on NASA TV from about 9.00am today - absolutely brilliant!!

Cheers Petra d.

[GrahamL]

looks like the river flats when the tides gone out thats a very earth like
feature imo ...wonder what else they will find in all those ruts ?

[timelord (Al)]

Great work! But I can't believe it only has an estimated 3 months to live! Once it freezes over in winter its reported it dies, hope it acomplishes all it is meant to and more in its short life then may it rest in peace.
Al.

[madtuna (Steve)]

hot off the NASA site

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

I just knew there were LGM's there ... they are so shiny too

[mabsj2]

i did not watch the landing live but i saw the pictures after. i think they are great. finally the long wait is over, Phoenix is busy right now.

for those who really need to see the pictures here is the link http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix
you can check out my Blog... i've written something about the landing.

right now we are waiting for the details about the Health of the spacecraft. i am very certain its doing great.....

[AstralTraveller (David)]

When I saw that first image from Phoenix I though "Wow that looks exactly like patterned ground on Earth!" Patterned ground is formed in periglacial regions by repeated freezing and thawing of the ground. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterned_ground
http://www.hi.is/~oi/glacial_geology_photos.htm&h=880&w= 1420&sz=302&tbnid=fzj5Uhy1PnkJ:&tbn h=93&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpatterned%2Bground&hl= en&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct =image&cd=2

NASA obviously read my mind because they are now saying the same.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...tcard_edr.html

BTW In the Australian context beware of associating such morphology with prior periglacial conditions. Broadly similar morphology can also be produced by wetting and drying of swelling clays. See

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaver...ilgailinks.htm
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vr...pages/gloss_dg
http://crcleme.org.au/Pubs/Advancesinregolith/Webb.pdf

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Another recent pic

[Alchemy (Clive)]

hope theyve got home delivered, roast that in the chemical oven and see what they get....... no organic material here

[Ric]

Nice one Geoff.

Why does it not suprise me though.

[mabsj2]

Phoenix is still doing very good. most checks have been done and he is doing just fine.

the latest news is that Phoenix has started deploying its Robotic Arm.. for more info go to http://www.nasa.gov

here is the Picture..
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2..._may29_690.jpg

[MikeyB (Michael)]

Where the retro rocket thrusters have blown the dust away, Phoenix appears to be standing on it!

[mabsj2]

Phoenix has made an Impression on Mars.
The Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments......

still doing good.... Still hoping for more...

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Did you see the mark dubbed "Yeti" looks like a footprint !

[leinad (Dan)]

Is it just my browser or my connection; are others not able to get to the Arizona Phoenix website ???

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/

[erick (Eric)]

no problem for me..............

[leinad (Dan)]

Maybe this is why :O
Phoenix Website takes website hack hits
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/blogsPost.php?bID=205

Check this out too. Mars Phoenix updates using Twitter

http://twitter.com/Marsphoenix

[mabsj2]

Originally Posted by leinad

Maybe this is why :O
Phoenix Website takes website hack hits
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/blogsPost.php?bID=205

Check this out too. Mars Phoenix updates using Twitter

http://twitter.com/Marsphoenix

cool, i am definately going to follow you. thanks for that link.