Phoenix on Jeopardy!by Chelsea HodsonPhoenix may still be on its way to Mars, but it has already arrived on national television. The Phoenix lander was the topic of a Final Jeopardy! clue that aired on March 4 on Jeopardy! The answer was, "A NASA Mars lander has this mythic name because it was made of parts from a scrapped 2001 mission." The question was, "What is Phoenix?" and the "scrapped mission" refers to the 2001 Mars Surveyor Lander. 
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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 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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