Talk:Phoenix (spacecraft)
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There is another spacecraft, or at least spacecraft design, called the Phoenix: Phoenix C
Except for the first couple of paragraphs, the text of this article is verbatim that of the NASA press release on Phoenix: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20030804a.html
Though the material is not copyrighted, is some sort of credit needed in the article? Cheers --Ajr 12:28, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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- Nope. US Government cannot claim copyright. That press release is public domain. Sennheiser! 12:54, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Spring cleaning
I've been working for the last 2 days on doing some spring cleaning to the site. Generally speaking, this article now has some more interesting information. I tried to use the information that was already here, combining it in a new way, to make it more readable, and providing information that others might find interesting. Still needing to be done are: Add information about the spacecraft's power/comunication/etc systems, adding info about another instrument or two, etc. Still, I at least think the changes are somewhat useful. Any comments? Tuvas 14:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No airbags?
Why does this mission require the use of rockets to lower the lander to the surface? I thought that airbags were the safest option, no failures to date while the last Mars lander to use rockets was never heard from again.
Also, it would be great if we could get larger versions of the instrumentation images.--Hooperbloob 15:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Some missions you just don't want to have bouncing around on Mars. Remember, this has a complete science lab, you don't want to have that bouncing around on Mars. As to larger versions of the instruments, well, be my guest, if you can find them. Tuvas 01:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The probe on this mission is too heavy to use the inflated landing pad technology used on the spirit and opportunity rover missions. those two landings came dangerously close to maxing out the impact shielding from their their inflated landing bags--Maximilian77 00:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Things needed
We still need to add a section here about the Engineering side of the Phoenix lander. I've noted that several copies in other languages have better versions than ours, perhaps we can learn from theirs. Tuvas 19:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I would also like some information about the landing site for this spacecraft. So far, I can't seem to find any information about where (specifically) this probe is scheduled to land--Maximilian77 00:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's not been decided yet; the northern plains is about as precise as I can tell so far. No specific names yet.--Planetary 06:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] One year from launch!
Less then 1 year left until the Phoenix comes to Mars! It's been a while (30 years), since an immobile spacecraft has been there. I've expanded the goals section in the meantime, and look forward to adding the first photos from the martian arctic!--Planetary 21:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Just noticed, that the instrument images are low resoluton for "free use" because they're NASA images. However, NASA material is public domain, our only limit on resolution is server space. I'd replace them , but I've never replaced images before, and I'd just screw up probably. I also want to make sure there are no objections, say because of spacing or layout or something.--Planetary 01:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Just looked. They're already that size! :o Well, when new, larger, ones are added, they should be replaced.--Planetary 02:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
