Phoenix Has Landed!

The search is ongoing for life on Mars.  The Odyssey Orbiter detected what appears to be large amounts of subsurface ice on the northern pole of Mars back in 2002.  Where there’s water, there’s life, right?  Such is the theory and now the current Phoenix mission has a lander on Mars to look for evidence of life (or previous life) on Mars.

NASA has a site that is the main portal to info on the project happenings as well as pictures that are coming back – http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/mission/index.html.   Peter Smith of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is the PI for the Phoenix project.  The University’s Phoenix Mars Mission site can be found at – http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/.  Lots of good info on both sites.

I did a quick search on the Worldwide Telescope’s Mars view as well as the Google Earth skyward Mars view, expecting to see some references to at least where the lander had landed.  Unfortunately, nothing to be found.  Come on guys…you’ve had over 9 months ;?)

Doug White