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Mission Information
MISSION_NAME PHOENIX
MISSION_ALIAS
MISSION_START_DATE 2008-05-25T12:00:00.000Z
MISSION_STOP_DATE 2008-11-02T12:00:00.000Z
MISSION_DESCRIPTION
MISSION_OBJECTIVES_SUMMARY 
   Mission Objectives Overview  ===========================    The Phoenix mission was closely aligned with the Mars Exploration    Program objective of determining the degree to which Mars provided    conditions critical for formation and preservation of prebiotic    compounds and whether life started and evolved. Consequently    determining the presence of water and its interaction with crustal    materials was of fundamental importance. The four primary science    objectives were tailored to investigate the history of water in all    forms on Mars, as well as the biological potential of the soil-ice    boundary. The four primary science goals were: (1) To study the    history of the ground-ice and its emplacement mechanisms, (2) To    address the effect that subsurface ice has on the local surface    geomorphology, (3) To characterize the climate and local weather of    the landing site, and (4) To address the habitability of the icy soil    [SMITHETAL2009].
REFERENCE_DESCRIPTION Arvidson, R.E., R.G. Bonitz, M.L. Robinson, J.L. Carsten, R.A. Volpe, A. Trebi-Ollennu, M.T. Mellon, P.C. Chu, K.R. Davis, J.J. Wilson, A.S. Shaw, R.N. Greenberger, K.L. Siebach, T.C. Stein, S.C. Cull, W. Goetz, R.V. Morris, D.W. Ming, H.U. Keller, M.T. Lemmon, H.G. Sizemore, and M. Mehta, Results from the Mars Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, E00E02, 2009, doi:10.1029/2009JE003408.

Boynton, W. V., D. W. Ming, S. P. Kounaves, S. M. M. Young, R. E. Arvidson, M. H. Hecht, J. Hoffman, P. B. Niles, D. K. Hamara, R. C. Quinn, P. H. Smith, B. Sutter, D. C. Catling, and R. V. Morris, Evidence for Calcium Carbonate at the Mars Phoenix Landing Site, Science 325, 61, doi: 10.1126/science, 1172768, 2009.

Desai, P.N., J.L. Prince, E.M. Queen, J.R. Cruz, and M.R., Grover, Entry, descent, and landing performance of the Mars Phoenix Lander. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) paper 2008-7346. Presented at AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2008.

Keller, H.U., W. Goetz, H. Hartwig, S.F. Hviid, R. Kramm, W.J. Markiewicz, C. Shinohara, P.H. Smith, R. Tanner, P. Woida, R. Woida, B.J. Bos, and M.T. Lemmon, The Phoenix Robotic Arm Camera, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E00A17, doi:10.1029/2007JE003044, 2008.

Kounaves, S.P. M.H. Hecht, S.J. West, J.M. Morookian, S.M.M. Young, R. Quinn, P. Grunthaner, X. Wen, M. Weilert, C. Cable, A. Fisher, K. Gospodinova, J. Kapit, S. Stroble, P.-C. Hsu, B.C. Clark, D.W. Ming, and P. Smith, The 2007 Phoenix Mars Scout Lander MECA Wet Chemistry Laboratory, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., 114, E00A19, doi: 10.1029/2008JE003084, 2009.

Lemmon, M. T., P. Smith, C. Shinohara, R. Tanner, P. Woida, A. Shaw, J. Hughes, R. Reynolds, R. Woida, J. Penegor, C. Oquest, S. F. Hviid, M. B. Madsen, M. Olsen, K. Leer, L. Drube, R. V. Morris, and D. Britt, The Phoenix Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) Investigation, Lunar Planet Sci., XXXIX, Abstract 2156, 2008

Moores, J.E., M. T. Lemmon, P. H. Smith, L. Komguem, and J. A. Whiteway, Atmospheric dynamics at the Phoenix landing site as seen by the Surface Stereo Imager, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E00E08, doi: 10.1029/2009JE003409, 2010.

Smith, P.H., L. Tamppari, R.E. Arvidson, D. Bass, D. Blaney, W. Boynton, A. Carswell, D. Catling, B. Clark, T. Duck, E. DeJong, D. Fisher, W. Goetz, P. Gunnlaugsson, M. Hecht, V. Hipkin, J. Hoffman, S. Hviid, H. Keller, S. Kounaves, C.F. Lange, M. Lemmon, M. Madsen, M. Malin, W. Markiewicz, J. Marshall, C. McKay, M. Mellon, D. Michelangeli, D. Ming, R. Morris, N. Renno, W.T. Pike, U. Staufer, C. Stoker, P. Taylor, J. Whiteway, S. Young, and A. Zent, Introduction to special section on the Phoenix Mission: Landing site characterization experiments, mission overviews, and expected science, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, E00A18, 2008, doi:10.1029/2008JE003083.

Smith, D.E., M.T. Zuber, G.B. Jackson, G.A. Neumann,H. Riris, X. Sun, R.S. Zellar, C. Coltharp, J. Connelly, R.B. Katz, I. Kleyner, P. Liiva, A. Matuszeski, E.M. Mazarico, J.F. McGarry, A.-M. Novo-Gradac, M.N. Ott, C. Peters, L.A. Ramos-Izquierdo, L. Ramsey, D.D. Rowlands, S. Schmidt, V.S. Scott III, G.B. Shaw, J.C. Smith, J.-P. Swinski, M.H. Torrence, G. Unger, A.W. Yu, T.W. Zagwodzki, The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission, Space Science Reviews, 16 May 2009.

Taylor, P.A., Catling, D.C., Daly, M., Dickinson, C.S., Gunnlaugsson, H.P., Harri, A.-M., Lange, C.F., Temperature, pressure, and wind instrumentation in the Phoenix meteorological package. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, E00A10, 2008, doi:10.1029/2007JE003015.

Whiteway, J., M. Daly, A. Carswell, T. Duck, C. Dickinson, L. Komguem, and C.Cook, Lidar on the Phoenix mission to Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E00A08, doi: 10.1029/2007JE003002, 2008.

Zent, A., M.H. Hecht, D. Cobos, G. Cardell, M.C. Foote, S.E. Woods, M. Mehta. The Thermal Electrical Conductivity Probe (TECP) for Phoenix, J. Geophys. Res., 114, E00A27, doi: 10.1029/2007JE003052, 2009.