 Photo credit: University of Arizona  UA Wins Governor's Award For Innovation For Phoenix Mars MissionNovember 14, 2008 -- The University of Arizona won the Governor's Innovator of the Year Award in the academia category for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission."We had our fingers crossed, and butterflies in our stomachs, and were overjoyed when we were selected," said Peter Smith of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Phoenix Mission principal investigator. Smith accepted the prize at the Governor's Celebration of Innovation Awards gala held last night in Phoenix. "It was my joy as project leader to collect the award, but this prize is a testimony to fine work by the whole team," he added. "It's been a great mission." Read More       Interstellar Storytellerby Carla BitterOctober 29, 2008 - “I’m going to tell you a story.” If, like me, that line never fails to excite you, you may think a lot about the nature of how we humans communicate. I have been thinking about this more than usual ...Read More Phoenix Weathers Stormby Patrick WoidaOctober 12, 2008 - Phoenix has endured her first major storm. Much as the National Hurricane Center, our orbiters saw the first great dust clouds peel out off the north polar cap and heading for the Phoenix site. Since storms ...Read More |
  Phoenix TributeMission Highlights - The Phoenix Mars Lander surpassed its original three-month mission, lasting five months in the Martian northern plains, digging up scientific 'firsts' along the way. Courtesy NASA/JPL-CaltechStandard (94 MB) High Definition (213 MB) Standard Podcast (26 MB) High Definition Podcast (82 MB) |
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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