Phoenix settles successfully in Mars

NASA presents first resulted scientific of new Martian sounding lead In press conference, scientists describe first results. Mission still will have much work for the front in next the 90 days. Later that -- literally -- the dust seated, the scientists and involved engineers with the Phoenix mission had started to present the first results, together with the first colorful images collected by the sounding lead in the Mars surface. " We can see in the images cracks in the ground, made by ice, what he means that the ground is ativo" , Peter said Smith, scientist-head of the mission of NASA. " Now, particularly we are interested in what it is in our area of escavação." The robotic arm of the Phoenix alone can reach the regions next to the landing place of the vehicle (as it is not a jeep, it is motionless the time all in the same place), but exactly still has uncertainties there -- so far, only photos in a direction had been taken off. The collected data come in dropper for the Land, in reason of the project of communication of the sounding lead with the Land. The Phoenix is incapable to transfer given directly to here; instead of this, it needs to send the data to some of the American sounding leads in orbit (Mars Odyssey or Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), that in turn the information for the Land go off. In case that the mission gives certain, it will have an only chance to study the Martian ice -- that it has, beyond carbon dioxide, also water, as its components. Than this, more sensory they will be able to look for, in way to these congealed rocks, organic substances. It would be the next step in the search for life in the red planet, later that the jeeps Spirit and Opportunity had evidenced that Mars already had great amounts of current water in its surface -- one of the signals to identify the habitability of a world, according to astrobiólogos.