Images from the Pheonix Lander (Mars)

Uly · May 2008

Here are the first few publicly released photos from the Pheonix Lander that touched down on Mars a few hours ago. : )

http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=8

Some info on the mission and lander.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)

pliang · May 2008

Lovely...heard it started a while ago...

Peris · May 2008

big color pic here: http://planetary.org/image/false_color_postcard.jpg

Too bad they had to land it in the most boring looking safe flat area they could find, but hopefully it might catch some cool pics of the huge dust devils that are supposed to be around there, and ofcourse when the place starts getting covered in snow in the martian winter.

Keg · May 2008

Mars is too next gen! it needs more vibrant colors!

CrazyButcher · May 2008

related a nice animation about the lander
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080525m.html

hellobuddy · May 2008

Finally! we have landed on..Australia?

mLichy · May 2008

Prob. are pictures taken from Arizona lol.

THat animation was sweet though.

hawken · May 2008

whos that guy in the background waving back?

http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=440&cID=8

Striff · May 2008

Heatshield.

Hopefully its not a Decepticon.

Mark Dygert · May 2008

If it is, we don't have to worry. It's not like we have a shortage of goofy idiots named Shia LaBeouf

Jesse Moody · May 2008

Why are we sending rovers into the grand canyon and Arizona? Are we looking for something?

low odor · May 2008

what are we looking for on mars?

pliang · May 2008

low odor wrote: »

what are we looking for on mars?

Monkeys and little green men.

Mil0 · May 2008

low odor wrote: »

what are we looking for on mars?

Biker mice?

Asherr · May 2008

low odor wrote: »

what are we looking for on mars?

Willis.

dfacto · May 2008

low odor wrote: »

what are we looking for on mars?

Duke Nukem Forever

rebb · May 2008

This. NSFW!

Peris · May 2008

The mars reconnaissance orbiter captured a pic of it while it was descending

[Deleted User] · May 2008

I wonder if they'll ever decide to send some volcanic bacteria up there and see if evolution kicks in.

Thegodzero · May 2008

fly, if there is life on mars how ever basic they will not do anything to try and bring new life over. So lets hope for a dead planet that can be teraformed with some algae and microbial life. I would love to see the beginnings of a black mars. Black because of the black algae needed to start mass production of o2.

I still really want to see Venus all up close and personal. As in a satellite that can map the planet and a rover to traverse it. To me Venus and Europa sound like a better bet for life to me.

Peris · May 2008

Thegodzero wrote: »

fly, if there is life on mars how ever basic they will not do anything to try and bring new life over. So lets hope for a dead planet that can be teraformed with some algae and microbial life. I would love to see the beginnings of a black mars. Black because of the black algae needed to start mass production of o2.

I still really want to see Venus all up close and personal. As in a satellite that can map the planet and a rover to traverse it. To me Venus and Europa sound like a better bet for life to me.

hawken · May 2008

rebb wrote: »

This. NSFW!

man I'm sure she only had 3

dfacto · May 2008

hawken wrote: »

man I'm sure she only had 3

No, that was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

moose · May 2008

its pretty cool we're sending robots to mars, but i think the excitement of red rocks in black and white is a little old

on another note, do your part! http://www.bedreststudy.com/default.aspx

Striff · May 2008

Descent from another angle.

Peris · May 2008

holy shit :0

hawken · May 2008

Striff wrote: »

Descent from another angle.

I took this picture

TomDunne · May 2008

Thegodzero wrote: »

I still really want to see Venus all up close and personal. As in a satellite that can map the planet and a rover to traverse it. To me Venus and Europa sound like a better bet for life to me.

The air pressure on Venus is about 100 times that of the Earth, and the surface temperature runs around 500 °C. If there's any life on Venus, I hope we never meet it, because it'll probably kick Earth's ass :P

Images from the Pheonix Lander (Mars)

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