Your Summer Outreach Options Are: Photo credit: Carla Bitter  Mission Engineer Rob Bovill giving a tour of the PIT. Visit the SOC
Beginning May 19th, we invite you to schedule your free summer visit to the SOC. Please use our online registration system to schedule a one-hour visit. Families, individuals, and groups are welcome. If you missed an opportunity to tour our whole facilitiy in person, please check out our virtual guided tour here on our website.
Prior to the activation of the system please contact:
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THE MISSIONThe University of Arizona is honored to be the first university to lead a mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled for launch in August 2007, 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 
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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 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