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    Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars
    05.09.08 -- When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as the men and women who have spent years planning, analyzing and conducting tests to prepare for the dramatic and nerve-wracking event known as EDL - Entry, Descent and Landing.
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    Phoenix Briefings, Events
    May 13, 11 a.m. - Mission briefing
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Phoenix Landing Area Viewed by Mars Color Imager

area where dust devils detected

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this view of a large region of northern Mars that includes the Phoenix mission landing target area in the lower right quadrant.

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Possible Landing Ellipses for Phoenix

Possible Landing Ellipses for Phoenix

This map shows possible landing ellipses for the spring 2008 landing of Phoenix on Mars.

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Sweet Spot for Landing on Mars

Sweet Spot for Landing on Mars

This view shows scattered rocks and a polygonal ground texture within the "sweet spot" of the planned landing area for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.

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Mission News

Mission Management

    The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith at the University of Arizona, Tucson, with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Further information about Phoenix is online at http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix and http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu .

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  • Artist concept of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander

    Podcast: Journey to the Martian North Pole

    A new NASA mission will study water history and habitability at the north pole of Mars.

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