The Mars Phoenix lander has successfully reached Mars!
Amid a chorus of applause, wild cheering, back-slapping and handshakes at the Jet Propulsion Labratory, the data currently is rolling in from the robotic spacecraft that its entry, descent and landing has gone exactly according to plan and that it has landed in the northern reaches of the Red Planet.
The entire team of the Mars Phoenix mission is to be congratulated for their extraordinary achievement- the sixth successful landing of a robotic spacecraft on Mars in history. The Committee for the Advocacy of Space Exploration wishes them the best of luck in the coming months and has no doubt that they will add volumes to our scientific understanding of Mars.
