How risky is the decent of the Phoenix spacecraft on May 25? It will not be tested using the air bag design can be due to weight problems. Does NASA provide comentry Live NASA (public channel) TV? Is that all three artificial satellites around Mars that have been designed to be the right place, March 25 is capable of recording / broadcast of photos in motion progress Pheonix landing attempts or if something had wrong is it similar to Beagle 2, where the people never know for sure what went wrong making it more difficult to improve the success rate of future robotic landings on Mars?
Very, very risky ... Be aware - it will take about 24 minutes for a radio signal to a return trip from March 25 May 2008 - the day of landing. This means that everything will work automatically.
Do not forget the two Viking landers of the 1970s ... they were able to use the retro rockets.
Of course, landing on another planet is always risky. There is no way to see pictures of Phoenix as it is landing. All we can do is listen to the signals. And, yes, there will be live coverage of the event on NASA TV and perhaps other stations.
Posted on March 11, 2010.