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Journey of Phoenix on the Red Planet
November 11, 2008
"Phoenix not only met the tremendous challenge of landing safely, it accomplished scientific investigations on 149 of its 152 Martian days as a result of dedicated work by a talented team," said Phoenix Project Manager Barry Goldstein at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Phoenix's preliminary science accomplishments advance the goal of studying whether the Martian arctic environment has ever been favourable for microbes.
Image: This image was taken by Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 15th Martian day after landing. This panorama looks to the southeast and shows rocks casting shadows, polygons on the surface and in the far horizon, Phoenix's backshell gleams in the distance.
Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
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