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NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Animation

posted by eric3579

1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1134 views

tags: Mars, Phoenix, Lander, NASA

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Here's a very cool animation sequence of the Phoenix Polar Lander

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A bit of the story here
http://www.videosift.com/video/Life-on-Mars

written by eric3579

| 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Awesome video.

written by oxdottir

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You can follow the probes progress on twitter here http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix, trendy. I love the first person posts - i cant believe they get cell coverage on mars when i cant get it in the elevator at work

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AWESOME! The LIDAR at the end is great! The head of the physics department at Dalhousie University Tom Duck was involved with that project. They often use the LIDAR from campus in Halifax. You can see it in the sky all around town. This green laser shooting up from Dal.

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| 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH

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What are they using the LIDAR for on the Phoenix?

written by dag

| 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH

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^
From NASA site

The scientific goals of LIDAR are to:

* Study the evolution of aerosols and stratification of the atmosphere, as well as acquire meteorological and environmental information
* Provide measurements of atmospheric parameters not attainable by other techniques, such as the structure of the near-surface boundary layer and the dynamic of its scattering properties (this is actually the instrument's main objective)
* Measure the daily and seasonal variability and the vertical structure of the Martian atmosphere
* Detect cloud and fog appearances
* Measure incoming solar radiation and its correlation with atmospheric turbidity
* Measure the depolarization factor of the sky emission

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