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We’ve Landed on Mars…Again

May 25th, 2008 5:03 pm | No Comments

Phoenix successfully landed on the Red Giant as the latest NASA/JPL explorer vehicle looks for life on Mars.

Phoenix Mission Control

At approximately 4:55 PDT, Phoenix landed after the “7 minutes of terror”. The 7 minutes is the time it takes for the orbiter to enter the atmosphere, deploy parachutes, heat shield deployment and then final landing.

At 4:51 PDT, signal received that parachutes did deploy and they have a 32k signal lock on Phoenix communications array.

The Phoenix successfully landed and NASA/JPL jumps for joy!

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