Phoenix Heads for Mars, Spacecraft Healthy
The Phoenix spacecraft has separated from the Delta II rocket and ground controllers at NASA's Deep Space Network have acquired its signal and begun assessing its health. The solar panels that will power the mission's cruise phase will be deployed and Phoenix will be pointed to best receive solar power and communicate with Earth.
The spacecraft has oriented itself to the sun as it was programmed to do. It will use solar panels to generate electricity during the nine-month coast to Mars. A separate set of solar arrays is attached to the lander itself.
4th August, 2007
Channel: Science & Technology Uploaded: August 4, 2007 at 2:01 pm Author:BrunoTheQuestionable
crylo2000(Wednesday 26th of November 2008 03:21:01 PM)
Just awesome!!!
SuperGamer7(Tuesday 28th of October 2008 06:30:43 PM)
Humans are the Smartest Species! We are smart as a whole, and to be honest, anyone who thinks any differently is wrong!
Honestly, some internet posters do this on purpose just to get noticed, and it makes them look foolish! More than half of the negative things they post aren't true!
We are the best species, PERIOD!
logic2reason(Friday 21st of November 2008 06:47:03 PM)
either your truly deluded, or your only referring to nature species on this planet. For surely no one is that naive! 60% of this planet still can't admit we don't know why we are here and would rather sell it to a religion which mostly is based on blind faith. Rather than admit responsibility for our actions and stop greed and ignorance. Your statement PROVES our own ignorance and i rest my case. well maybe now, but for now atleast
TachieBillano(Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 09:15:55 AM)
SuperGamer7: I think Connecticut2009 just said, "Your belief that your nation is the most / more intelligent in the world (is) an error...Nothing / nobody is perfect."
faceofdead(Monday 29th of September 2008 07:54:06 AM)
well i want to die knowing there is other life somewhere in the galaxy , so NASA - keep working !
You know what's sad, for a video that shows the some of the finest human achievements, 90% of the comments that followed are so moronic you'd wonder how human beings ever evolved beyond the stone age.
Congrats NASA.
That's because those achievements were made by the top few percent of the human population. Let's face it, humans as a whole are a pretty dumb species. Idiotic comments are just a tip of the iceberg.
