Chris Lintott’s Universe

August 4th, 2007

Phoenix Rising

Posted by chrislintott in Mars

NASA’s latest Mars mission, Phoenix has launched and is on its way to the red planet. The mission was put together using much of the technology developed for the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander and the canceled 2001 Surveyor lander, so fingers crossed for a smooth flight to Mars. I haven’t been this excited about a mission since Huygens, and you can hear all about it on the last Living Space.

Much more importantly though, I think Phoenix is the first mission to have a movie-style trailer.

2 Responses to ' Phoenix Rising '

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to ' Phoenix Rising '.

  1. Ann Croft said,

    on August 5th, 2007 at 12:00 am

    *fingers and toes crossed*
    Good luck and God speed to the Phoenix

    galaxybabe

  2. Stuart Atkinson said,

    on August 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Watched the launch yesterday and as a lifelong “Mars nut” this is going to be a fantastic mission! Only 9 months or so until she starts digging into that ice, and finds… who knows..?

    Wrote this about it which I hope a few of you will take a look at…

    http://spaceurope.blogspot.com/2007/07/today-we-will-have-different-kind-of.html

    Godspeed Phoenix!

Leave a reply