Mars Express-Team ist bereit für NASA Phoenix-Landung   An artist's impression of Mars Express. The spacecraft left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003. It reached its destination after a six-month journey, and has been investigating the planet since early 2004.   NASA’s Martian lander, Phoenix, is scheduled to be launched on 3 August this year and is expected to land on the Red Planet in the spring of 2008. The mission will investigate the Martian environment and will look beneath the frigid, arctic landscape in search of conditions favourable to past or present life.   Klicken Sie aufs Interview mit Mars Express Flugdirektor Paolo Ferri   Klicken Sie aufs Interview mit Mars Express Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager Peter Schmitz   ESA's 35 m-diameter deep-space dish antenna, DSA-2, is located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain, as part of the ESTRACK network. Release date: 19 Mai 2008