August 4th, 2007 The Delta II Lauched the Mars Phoenix spacecraft. Remember my different post (and here).
Tonight NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars with no further adjustments to its flight path. Mission controllers decided early today not to use the last possible time for a trajectory correction maneuver, eight hours before landing.
Phoenix is scheduled to touch down on the northern icy plains of Mars on May 25 (Today).
The first possible time for confirmation that Phoenix has landed will be at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time today. The landing would have happened 15 minutes earlier on Mars, but radio signals take 15 minutes to travel from Mars to Earth at the distance separating the two planets today, 171 million miles. The spacecraft is in good health after its 9 month trip.
Watch it on Nasa Web Tv
Do you think we should send astronauts on mars?
