By Learners Online
Grade: 6-12
Subject: Science/Technology
NASA scientists celebrated the successful landing on of the Phoenix Mars Lander on Sunday, May 25, 2008. Phoenix flexed its solar panels and started its work. Over the next few months, the specific mission to accomplish is sampling the planet’s arctic plains.
Launched in August 2007, the Phoenix is the first in NASA’s Scout Program, deemed to take the next step in studying the planet’s history of water and determining if humans could one day inhabit it. Since as early as 1960, experts have been developing orbiters, landers and rovers to study the planet in detail and as continuously as possible. Read the rest of this entry »



























