The Phoenix has landed
The Mars Phoenix Lander has successfully landed on Mars and is successfully transmitting back to Earth. This is cool news. It worried me a bit that it might crash like the Mars Polar Lander did back in 2000. Guess it wasn't the Martians who shot down the Polar Lander...
[...] landed on Mars in May, when the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to see it during its descent, the Mars Phoenix [...]