Phoenix has landed on mars!

[Demosthenes]

The Phoenix landed on Mars today. That is good news. Nasa's site lists four main goals for Phoenix:

--Determine whether Life ever arose on Mars

--Characterize the Climate of Mars

--Characterize the Geology of Mars

--Prepare for Human Exploration

Follow the mission here (http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html).

Here is one of the first images from Phoenix showing the Martian terrain and horizon.

http://www.planetary.org/image/phoenix_lg_309.jpg

More images here (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=8). Not the eerily "340" shaped UFO at the top. Also, note that they already have what appears to be a Starbuck's on Mars:

http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/2008/phoenix_horizonbump.jpg

[Coffeedagger]

Yay!!!! I forgot about this mission thanks for the update!

[jamer123]

hey you stole my thread

[Demosthenes]

hey you stole my thread

What?

[Wallow]

He made a thread about his too, just not many people replied and it got lost in unresponded threads.

[HandOfHeaven]

It's good to see those pics. Thanks for posting them!

I watched the landing on the Science channel last night. It was pretty intense, but I was dissappointed to hear I had to wait 2 hours to see pictures sent back.

[Coriander]

Woot Woot!! The terrain isn't what I had expected. I expected it to be way more hilly, don't know why. It would be awesome if it got a snapshot of a skull.

[Demosthenes]

They purposely landed it in a relatively boring spot hoping to avoid any mishaps.

[D3V]

Great update, m....; I'm excited to see the second half of the mission, which will be the exploration obviously...

[-Spector-]

This is excellent.

[Coffeedagger]

I want to see some sort of creature on the surface of Mars!

[D3V]

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20080527_PHX/20080527_RAW_AM.jpg

[Asamin]

Is that top right one a self portrate by a robot?

[D3V]

Is that top right one a self portrate by a robot?

I believe so, or it's arm sticking out with another Camera on it, MYSPACEEEE

[Wallow]

I wonder if the ice on Mars is so frozen over that you can't slip on it.