Congratulations Phoenix!
May 27th, 2008 | Published in Uncategorized
No, not the redhead, the NASA Mars Probe. After 296 days, 422 million miles, the Mars Phoenix Lander made the first successful soft landing on Mars since the Viking landers in the 1970s. Over the next few years, we’re going to learn so much about Mars, and by extension the world around us. The data from the Phoenix Lander is going to give us information that will be hugely valuable should we ever decide to send humans to Mars. (I’m not going to get into the whole “Manned exploration is (not) useful debate other than to say: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Some things, machines just can’t do.)
This is big news here in the old pueblo, lots of ties to the U of A
(Via bynkii.com.)
