Back to Mars: After '99 failure, NASA sets sights on lander touchdown Sunday: "(Computerworld) After a nine-month, 422-million-mile trip from Earth that began last August, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will catch up to the red planet Sunday to begin its three-month science mission.
Its mission is series of soil analysis projects that involve digging lightly into the Mars surface to study the history of water, ice and life potential in the planet's soil. But before those soil analysis projects can even get under way, the Phoenix has to successfully land on the planet's surface, which, as NASA knows by experience, isn't a sure thing."
"Where Is Phoenix?" on the JPL Solar System Simulator.
