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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Guest Blogging on Giz [Phoenix Mars Lander]

We'd like to introduce our newest guest blogger—the Phoenix Mars Lander. With a successful mission starting to wind down as a cold winter rapidly descends upon its landing site in the Martian arctic, we're pretty happy that Phoenix, (already a prolific Twitterer) has agreed to look back with us on its amazing life over the course of its final days on Mars. Here Phoenix starts with the very beginning of the story. We're pretty sure a spacecraft has never guest-edited a blog before. Enjoy. • Phoenix Mars Lander Looks Back on its Re-Birth Read More: Hello World, Phoenix Lander Here, Today is Phoenix Mars Lander Day [lien] [EN]

Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander was launched last August, and is scheduled to reach the surface of Mars on Sunday. This is the first Mars mission that will set down near the planet’s frozen pole. Scientists hope to find ice, and maybe evidence of the planet’s past. Wielding its robotic arm like a backhoe, Phoenix is designed [...] [lien] [EN]

Today is Phoenix Mars Lander Day [Phoenix Mars Lander]

As you digest hot dogs or tend to one of your geektastic Memorial Day grilling machines today, take a moment to consider NASA's Phoenix Lander, which is scheduled to touch down on Mars this evening. At about 8 p.m. EST, the multimillion dollar lander will enter the Red Planet's atmosphere and experience what CNN is calling "seven minutes of terror" (worry not, I checked the story and it has nothing to do with the Lander being in a closet with Paris Hilton). Then, during a maneuver that puts any earthbound supercar's brakes to shame, Phoenix will slow itself from approximately 13,000 miles per hour to about five in the space of six to seven minutes. Want to follow the probe's wild ride? There are a few sites covering the evening event live listed after the jump. [lien] [EN]

Hello World, Phoenix Lander Here [Phoenix Mars Lander]

It's time for a heart-to-heart. While I've spent my entire mission talking to followers via Twitter, some things just can't be said in 140 characters or less. So I was thrilled when the editors of Gizmodo asked if I would contribute as a guest blogger, and even more thrilled when they said I could write more than two sentences at a time. One of the most common questions I'm asked, and one of the most difficult to explain, is whether I knew going in that this mission would cost me my life. The answer to that is yes, of course, and there's not a single robotic explorer in our solar system that doesn't know it faces the same fate. Unlike all of you, most of us can't go home again. Perhaps what troubles people most is that my mission will come to an end so soon. They want to know what it is the long. [lien] [EN]

This is What Landing On Mars Feels Like [Phoenix Mars Lander]

This is part 2 of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/space/Phoenix_Lander_This_Is_What_Landing_On_Mars_Feels_Like'; [lien] [EN]

Martian Ice Is Why I'm Alive and Why I'm Dying [Phoenix Mars Lander]

This is part three of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. As a polar explorer, my entire mission depended on ice. I was sent to Mars to find clues to the water history of Mars—data that would help determine whether the planet was ever hospitable to life—by studying its water ice. Without it, my mission would be toast, but in the end, it's what will ultimately kill me. Using data from the Odyssey orbiter, scientists predicted I'd land on top of subsurface ice, completely hidden from view below inches of red Martian topsoil. It would probably take a few to several days, maybe even weeks, of tireless digging with my robotic arm to find it. Or so they thought. Before I could dig, I first had to check some blind spots around my base that were hidden from the view of my main camera. [lien] [EN]

Twitter Feeds of Pharma Companies

Twitter Feeds of Pharma Companies August - Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Pharma, Web , twitter. The IgniteHealth marketing agency created a nice list of Twitter feeds of pharma companies that have already embraced social media. Just a short note: they could use the power of Twitter more efficiently (no communication with followers, sometimes hardly understandable messages, etc.). If they really want to use Twitter properly, they should see this slideshow: Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) Scifoo: A visit to the Navigenics HQ, Is your company King Of Twitter?, Ragan.com Interview – Making Twitter Work for Your Company, Billy Heromans on Twitter. [lien] [EN]

NASA Phoenix Lander Finds Water On Mars! [Mars Phoenix Lander]

The landing thrusters aboard the Phoenix Mars Lander apparently did their job and them some. First, they successfully fired and gently deposited the multimillion dollar probe on the surface of the Red Planet. And then, by doing just that, they blew away three to six inches of Martian soil to reveal the shiny, slick face of what could be a large ice patch. Brendan Fraser's frozen caveman body was noticeably absent from this block of ice, but NASA scientists were elated anyway. The discovery reaffirms that the landing was indeed a bull's eye, akin to the Opportunity rover "hole in one" crater touchdown more than four years ago. "It's the consensus of all of us that we have found ice," said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, which is leading the Phoenix project with help from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. [lien] [EN]

Phoenix Lander’s Mars Panorama

We’ve featured a panorama of Mars before (taken by the rover Opportunity), but here’s a new one from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander: Link [Quicktime]- Thanks Jeffrey Martin! [lien] [EN]

Mars Phoenix: We Got Touchdown [Ziggy Stardust]

This time there weren't any imperial vs metric units frack-ups: the Phoenix Mars Lander touched down perfectly on the northern polar region of Mars, starting a three-month mission that will see the spacecraft digging in the dirt for frozen water and tiny green men. galleryPost('marsphoenixlanding', 4, ''); NASA received the first signals at 7:53:44PM Eastern Time, which made engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and the University of Arizona, Tucson, to jump on their seats overjoyed. We can't blame them: this is just the third time in history that a spacecraft has completed a soft landing on the red planet, 32 years after Viking 2. Now we only have to wait a couple more days to see if everything. [lien] [EN]

Mars Lander Can Move Arm Now, Probably Just Slept On It Wrong [Nevermind]

Putting rest to fears that the Phoenix Lander might be DOA, the lander wagged its robotic arm on Thursday. NASA was worried that a stuck piece of plastic casing could prohibit the 7.7 ft titanium appendage from extending, making it impossible for the Phoenix to carry out crucial drilling experiments. The primary goal of the mission is to drill a few inches into Martian soil, where scientists think they may find red "water-ice," known on earth as strawberry Slushee, which could provide compelling evidence that life once did (or one day could) exist there. Digging is expected to start soon, but for now there's plenty of terrain porn at the Phoenix official website [Phoenix via NY Times] -by John Herrman [lien] [EN]

Presidential Science Advisor Briefed On Potential For Mars Life

This in an interesting story from Aviation Week They say “the data relate to habitability” But it makes you wonder why they had to brief the Presidential Science Advisor on this. UPDATE: Apparently the science team has had no official response, but has been using a twitter account to downplay the story. We do indeed live in interesting times. - Anthony Aug 1, 2008  By Craig Covault The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the “potential for life” on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week & Space Technology. Sources say the new data do not indicate the discovery of existing or past life on Mars. Rather the data relate to habitability–the “potential” for Mars to support life–at the Phoenix arctic landing site. [lien] [EN]

THE PHOENIX RISES

                                 NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander The National Aeronautics and Space Administration may have had to endure some justifiable criticism for its shortsighted and unimaginative manned space exploration program. But when it comes to its unmanned planetary exploration achievements, the scientists and engineers at JPL and their affiliate programs at universities and other space agencies around the world can still “Wow!” us all every once and awhile. The Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the north Polar region of Mars at 6:53 central time today as scientists and engineers at JPL and the University of Arizona cheered the culmination of ten years of enormously stressful work. [lien] [EN]

(Phoenix Mars Lander) Safe Mars landing confirmed; cheers erupt at UA

Source: [b]Arizona Daily Star[/b] Confirmation came moments ago that the UA-led Phoenix Mars Mission touched down on the red planet, prompting a rush of happiness and relief among the scientists and engineers who have spent years working on the project. Phoenix, launched in September, travelled ... [lien] [EN]