Comments on: Phoenix Lander At Mission's End

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By: gudenboink

gudenboink — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:55:14 +0000

HEY MAN!
GLACIERS Found in the Mid Latitudes on MARS!!!

MarsDaily just announced – sub-surface glaciers have been found no where near the poles on MARS! The aprons – they can NOW see through with RADAR – were discovered with Viking 32 years ago!

That is just too cool! I knew there had to be more similarities with Earth's evolution, since Mars is in THE habitable zone.

Same TV – different channel!

Way cool junior………..

By: Martin Watts

Martin Watts — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:32:34 +0000

I still hold a faint hope that come the Martian spring we may see the headline "Phoenix Rises From the Ices".

By: gudenboink

gudenboink — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:22:08 +0000

I also hope to live long enough to see a human on Mars – BECAUSE – Honestly, I'm tired of hearing over and over that Mars MAY have supported life and MAY have had liquid water, blah blah blah! It's pretty obvious that Mars was molten like Earth and went through the same processes Earth did. It is one half the size, therefore cooled much quicker, so obviously life should have evolved at least a billion years before Earth cooled enough. Everything was there. It just cooled and died much faster. So I would like someone to just step foot on the planet and verify once and for all that Mars was a quick version of Earth and stop saying May have done this or that…. It's beginning to get on my nerves to hear it every day. The data is there for all to see. Mars didn't stay molten in the interior long enough to have plate techtonics. And that concept on Earth is a new one?? How many years did they argue about plate movement? C'mon already, somebody grow a pair and SAY IT!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:09:43 +0000

….and this is still the best photo EVER!
http://tinyurl.com/66avm8

By: marcellus

marcellus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:04:52 +0000

Amen to the colonization sentiment.

I think that the Phoenix team did a wonderful job even getting that lander to its current location on Mars, when so many others have failed.

I pray I live long enough to see humans land on the Red Planet. That would be terrific.

By: Huygens

Huygens — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:24:56 +0000

Phoenix has one final important task that it will serve for decades if not centuries until it is found by future explorers: As a remote library holding many works of literature, art, and commentary about the Red Planet by those who made Phoenix and the other Mars explorers possible.

The Visions of Mars CD is expected to last from 500 to 1,000 years intact. Hopefully we will have colonized the planet by then.

I just wonder if there will be anyone able to read the data by the time it is found. As the recent UT article on the Apollo lunar dust data tapes attest, four decade old media stored on this planet is almost unreadable now, so why should we expect future historians to have access to a CD player on Mars?

By: Sofia

Sofia — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:05:16 +0000

It was the first mission that I followed….

By: alandee

alandee — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:37:57 +0000

@Don Alexander
"Rest in crumbly, brittle, CO2-covered pieces, Phoenix."
It hurts when coffee comes out your nose from laughing … Now that is the sort of comment we should have SETI sending out into space !
I feel kinda empty on the whole Phoenix thing, I think I expected too much .. I should have expected nothing, and known nothing of those little rovers still clocking up the miles

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:45:10 +0000

Thank you little Phoenix!

By: Silver Thread

Silver Thread — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:27:22 +0000

That'll do Phoenix, That'll do.

By: Huygens

Huygens — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:38:34 +0000

Ground Control to Major Phoenix.

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:22:24 +0000

Good job, Phoenix.

By: Huron

Huron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:03 +0000

Good-night, Phoenix;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

By: Valford

Valford — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:03:27 +0000

Jason, Phoenix's cameras also returned more than 25,000 pictures from sweeping vistas to near the atomic level using the first atomic force microscope ever used outside Earth.

Phoenix's preliminary science accomplishments advance the goal of studying whether the Martian arctic environment has ever been favorable for microbes. Additional findings include documenting a mildly alkaline soil environment unlike any found by earlier Mars missions; finding small concentrations of salts that could be nutrients for life; discovering perchlorate salt, which has implications for ice and soil properties; and finding calcium carbonate, a marker of effects of liquid water.

In this day and age, nothing is more valuable than knowledge.

By: For-seer

For-seer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:18:40 +0000

The accomplishment is a detailed examination of the soil content on Mars. That is where the data analysis comes in.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:06:05 +0000

Umm… what did this vehicle actually accomplish aside from landing, sending back some pictures, and digging a small trench?

By: GregW

GregW — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:57:34 +0000

Per Aspera Ad Astra

By: zeb

zeb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:40:24 +0000

Oh, Phoenix we hardly knew ye. Maybe in a hundred years someone will come along, dust it off, and put it in a museum on Mars.

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:30:43 +0000

Why do I feel like a pet has died?? ;(

Rest in crumbly, brittle, CO2-covered pieces, Phoenix.