THE MARS LANDER NAMED PHOENIX ARRIVED SAFELY and deployed properly yesterday.

After photographing its landing and surroundings, it shut off the cameras so that it could save the battery power to deploy the solar panels that are now generating the current that powers the device.

NASA/JPL/Cal-Tech/Univ. of Arizona

Tomorrow a robotic arm will dig a 3-ft.-deep trench and scoop the soil and (hopefully) any ice found into a chemical processing center within the lander.  Then it will analyze the samples.  Wow!

Here is the link to NASA’s website where you can read all about what’s going on and view all the photos as they are sent back to earth:
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ 

Be patient, there are about 1/2-billion people trying to log on, but I got through without any difficulty.

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