Hooray for Phoenix!

I was at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science last night for their Phoenix landing event and so got to watch the landing on NASA TV on the big IMAX screen along with hundreds of other locals. It was a tremendously successful landing (nice report here). I was really very impressed by how well things went. They also got a great set of initial images down so that we were able to get a good sense of the nature of the landing site. It definitely looked like the Northern Plains- very flat and covered by polygonally fractured terrain. Kudos to the engineers and scientists of the Phoenix mission for a fabulous landing!