Phoenix has landed!!

NASA has done it the mission to Mars has landed. Phoenix had a perfect landing on Mars. It is an astounding feat. The mission will explore Mars vertically that is dig in to find traces particularly of water. This blogger has always kept track of space missions, the interests started quite early. The programs by Carl Sagan that used to come in DD on Sunday mornings decades back had an elemental impact. He was an amazing guy, a great narrator and very passionate about what he said I can still recall Kepler, Copernicus….he opened a new area of interest. Previous successful mission to Mars include Mariner3-4, Mariner 6-7, Mariner8-9, Viking1-2, Mars Observer Pathfinder, Climate Orbitor, Polar Lander-Deep space 2, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars exploration rovers (spirit and opportunity), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Years later I had the fortune to be at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) as part of a Project for few months. It was a great experience; we did tests in supersonic tunnels with prototype of PSLV-d2. It was also the year the PSLV mission failed (1993), I was lucky to witness the post mortem analysis of the failed mission. It was quite interesting. It was great to know that the recent PSLV-c9 put ten satellites into the orbit recently, it is a stupendous feat by ISRO (i guess after GSLV).