Phoenix on course for 25 May Mars landing
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 09:42
in Astronomy & Space
With three days and 3 million miles left to fly before arriving at Mars, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is on track for its destination in the Martian arctic. 'The latest calculation from our navigation team shows the centre of the area where we're currently headed lies less than eight miles from the centre of our target area,' said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California...
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