You are cordially invited:
Phoenix Mars Mission Landing Celebration
Sunday, May 25, 2008 from 3:00 - 8:00 p.m. Kuiper Space Sciences Building • Sonett Space Sciences Building • Flandrau: The UA Science Center • Tucson, Arizona Located on the UA Mall at Cherry Ave. and University Blvd.  • Children's activities • Live Feed from NASA/JPL • Commentary by UA scientists and engineers • MarsQuest planetarium show • Tours of the Space Imagery Center • Mars & Solar viewing • Physics Factory • Free parking in the Cherry Avenue Garage Link to Map • Cake and balloons For More Detailed Information: Click Here
Are you a museum hosting a landing event? Click here for the JPL Museum Alliance Portal
Not in Tucson?
Check back for a list of local events (Coming Soon!)        Back from the PIT, off to Marsby Mark LemmonMay 05, 2008 - Another week, another project test. Last week we held ORT 10 inReady?by Patrick WoidaMay 02, 2008 - We have now completed our ORT10 dress rehearsal. It’s been a long road getting from taking a few days to just get through one day on Mars a year ago to being able to execute day by day the activities we need ...Read More |
THE MISSIONThe University of Arizona is honored to be the first public university to lead a mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to land May 25, 2008, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program. Learn More |
The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is,
with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark; the Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Additional information on Phoenix is online at here and here.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Additional information on NASA's Mars program is online at here.
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In remembrance of Diane Michelangeli