Comments on: Phoenix Spacecraft Maneuvers for Mars Landing

By: Preetish Banerji

Preetish Banerji — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:56:45 +0000

Will I get to see more pictures of the landing?

By: Astrofiend (Syd, Aust)

Astrofiend (Syd, Aust) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:39:47 +0000

# paul Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am

"i hope they find intelligence on mars, judging by the above posts theres f-all here"

Coming from a guy who fails to capitalise the letter 'i' not only as it is used in reference to the first person, but also at the start of a sentence, and can't remember that sentences are terminated with a full stop.

Yeah – your post really raised the bar, moron. Try learning the English language at the first-grade level before you go using it to call other people unintelligent.

By: Antti o

Antti o — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:12:21 +0000

What are the odds for a probe to find water in Sahara? Yet we know that there are underground water reservoirs and oases full of life. This is just a hypothetical question and is meant to remind the huge difficulty in this mission. Still I think it's worth-while. You never know when you beat the odds!

By: paul

paul — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:03:01 +0000

i hope they find intelligence on mars, judging by the above posts theres f-all here

By: Aknauta

Aknauta — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:47:44 +0000

Life is the paradigm of the universe.

By: Bill Moon

Bill Moon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:57:17 +0000

Here is something I have always wondered about this mission. When Phoenix lands isn't the hot, probably toxic exhaust from the landing rockets going to contaminate the very surface that is going to be sampled?

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http://stores.lulu.com/imminent_discovery — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:17:25 +0000

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By: Thomas Dehel

Thomas Dehel — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:13:26 +0000

It's sad to have such an overwhelming lack of interest of the public in an event that might be truely historic. Prior to 1962, Earl C. Slipher and the other astronomers of the era all saw the band of dark blue hug the polar cap of Mars as it retreated. This was interpreted as a sign of life – that Phoenix might find. We wrote about it "Imminent Discovery". Won't NASA be surprised if the early astronomers were right….

By: Dave: Space and Beyond!

Dave: Space and Beyond! — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:55:46 +0000

I have always been interested in space and space flight. I think we will someday find something out there worth while. It would be wild to think we are the "ONLY" ones out here in this vast Universe that we live in or even the only ones to have lived.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:12:17 +0000

I still do not have a clue why all these years we sent probes to where there was no real indicators for water looking for water, hence the possibility of life, when in fact it was known that there was water ice at the poles
and we just now decide to check there??
I guess I am just a dumb lay person..

By: www.actionforspace.com

www.actionforspace.com — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:20:03 +0000

I've got to wonder how many of the scientists don't think that they will actually discover life when this thing lands.

If I were a scientist on the project who thought that, I would be implementing a lesson learned from Viking and manage the public expectation by saying "we just going to see if once upon a time there ever was life that could have lived here.

Woulden't that be fantastic is it found life!