2008: Phoenix lands on Mars

The Phoenix lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet on 25 May 2008.

Here we see the live views of the Phoenix team (NASA TV) during the descent, intercut with Phoenix animations.

Finally we see the first images beamed from the Martian arctic region.

Credit: NASA

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• iaf
• 2008
• space
• nasa
• mars
• phoenix
• arctic
• landing
• images

[AZZEREA]

amazing

[mattjones2300]

wow thats amazing....the landing was so flawless...good job boys

[ericdoty]

The images are CGI images from the initial briefing of the mission. How would they be filming from all those different angles?

[eloyuli]

hay personas que en este mundo quiere quitarse la vida. creo que la nasa deveria entrenar a esta gente y mandarla en alguna mision al planeta marte. despues de todo si ellos se pierden o mueren en el viaje no hay problema de todos modos se querian quitar la vida. de esa forma se podria averiguar mas de la vida alla en el spacio.

[vvfking]

it was a joke :P

[isokessu]

o_O what alien do you mean?

[vvfking]

did you see that alien on the third picture?! O_O