This explains D-Star for those unfamiliar.

D-Star

H2O snow. Can Phoenix build a snowman later ?

Did Oppy just drive 283 meters in two drives ?

Congradulations !

Can I just get confirmation from someone that the white stuff in this picture is CO2 frost ?
Thank you.

Frost ?

I was not aware California had different days from the rest of the World, amazing !

I am encouraged to hear Oppy won't be commanded to drive blindly !!!!!

Wow, I always wanted to go there.

Oh crap, please say it's not true.

So we can expect a huge explosion there then when Falcon 9 blows up ?

Cool, that's the first time I saw DD's at the Phoenix site.

My nickname at school was Ichabod, I was skinny and brainy, lol. I am now not skinny and for the brains, well you know how age affects those, and beer.....

16 miles is a bit close isn't it ? You'd feel pretty stupid if a navigation error resulted in a collision.........

Did you see the heavy duty drill they have on MSL ?

The Rosetta page seems to do nothing, stays on the same page.

Google is your friend.

""Phoenix has landed! Phoenix has landed! Welcome to the northern plains of Mars!" mission commentator Richard Kornfeld exclaimed from the control center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "

What a news conference ? !!!!!!

I still marvel at the fact it worked, the shear number of things that had to go right in order to land perfectly.
I'd love to see the software flow charts on the EDL sequence.

If they launched tomorrow the likely hood is something else would fail........

It took NASA dozens and dozens of launches to get it mostly right, and of course stuff still occasionally "blows up ".

Boy they sure had some challenges to overcome. Good luck to them !

Oh dear.....will it ever work ?

"Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit" or not as of today.......

The boiling cauldron does not relate to what conditions are now, but what might have been in the past when and if Mars was warmer, and deep down underground, like next to a hot volcano.......

I just noticed on this picture the excess cabling that had to be tied back.
1. You'd think it was a weight penalty.
2. All the extra extra bends could be a fail point.

Cableing on the scoop.

Oh I just realized that's the scoop in the testbed, the flight model might be neater.

Don't use google. try this instead.....

http://www.cuil.com/