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Successful Phoenix touchdown


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Phoenix Mars lander just made a successful touchdown. So much cheaper to use robotic exploration than human exploration. No toilets, oxygen, food, oh and safer I might add. I won't debate the politics of exploration of Mars vs all the things we could spend for on Earth but I am glad for the success of the landing.

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I was watching the landing last night(well what they had of it anyway on CNN) with a friend who is the engineer who designed the robotic arm that will be digging into and analyzing the martian soil.

It was a very tense and exciting moment. Although the scientific experiments are a bit over my everyday concerns,It was really cool to have someone from the 'inside' to explain and answer my questions while it was landing. Its quite a project just to land something on Mars, never mind undertake the experiments it will be doing.

Im looking forward to more photos and findings as they become available.

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The search for evidences of life apperently are going quite well

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