Phoenix Mission Launch and Landing!!!!
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Phoenix launched on 4 August 2007 at 9:26:34 UT (5:26 a.m. EDT) on a Delta II 7925 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 681 million km heliocentric cruise to Mars will take approximately 10 months, with landing on Mars on 25 May of 2008. A powered descent and soft-landing will be achieved using a pulsed propulsion system with 8 thrusters. The landing site will be in the north polar region between 65 and 72 degrees N. Surface temperatures in this region range between about 190 and 260 K and the landing altitude will be about 3.5 km below the planetary reference. Mars will be 275 million km from Earth at the time of touchdown. The solar panels will be deployed after allowing time for the dust to settle, and all instruments will be deployed in the first two days after landing. This mission was featured on the tv show, Jeapordy, and is the first of NASA's scout program.
in this image the red boxes show the places that are the three possible landing areas in the polar region for the mars phoenix lander. The phoenix is currently working on which site to select for landing.
This is an image of the path of the phoenix mars lander as it heads to a planned may 25, 2008 landing in the polar region.
To the left is a picture of the Phoenix mission to mars.
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