"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
 MarsBots Camp 2007-08Kids all over the US participated in MarsBots summer camps and afterschool programs. Kids below are from Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans. The Summer 2007 program participants enjoyed live daily Q&A from Kennedy Space Center as Phoenix launched. Summer 2008 highlights will include live Q&A with Phoenix's Mission Control for campers. Below, campers build Martian communities as they Imagine Mars.  Making a Martian backdrop
 Building a Mars habitat
 Imagining Mars
 Creating a Martian surface
 A taste of Mars
 Ultraviolet Man experiment
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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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