I’ve already written a bit about Phoenix and mentioned that it’s heading for a site near Mars’ north pole, but where exactly are we heading? Doug Ellison has the details over at our Mars Live site.
Essentially, we’re heading for Northen Canada, but without the trees. Emily has the latest maps of the region, and gives the coordinates as 68.151N, 233.975E. Just out of interest, then, here’s Mars :
Credit : NASA / JPL / U. Arizona / Tim Parker
And here’s Google Maps’ highest resolution effort of the same coordinates on Earth
Please do bookmark Mars Live and come and join us on Sunday night.
Update : Due to not paying enough attention, I put the target on the wrong side of the border between the Yukon and the Northwest territories. I’ve corrected it now; thanks for pointing it out in the comments.
john boivin on May 23, 2008
Hey,
Little mystified by your headline. The location you point out is the NWT, not Yukon… you are about 400 km from the Yukon border and an area in no way associated with our territory. Not even in the Yukon watershed.
Yukon is part of the polar area, but not all polar areas are part of Yukon, to paraphrase Monty Python…
Anyway, enjoy your site,
John Boivin
Whitehorse, Yukon
chrislintott on May 25, 2008
Corrected, with apologies. I wasn’t paying enough attention.