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Mars Express one of three orbiters preparing for Phoenix landing

28 February 2008

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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.

Credits: ESA - D. Ducros

High-speed slew to track Phoenix descent

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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.

Credits: NASA/JPL (C.Waste)

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ESA's 35-metre deep-space dish antenna, located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain.

Credits: Cebreros

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