Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX) Basic Mission Goals

• Study the history of water in all its phases on Mars and how that pertains to the climatological, geological, and potentially biological record



• Search for evidence of a habitable zone and assess the biological potential of the ice-soil boundary in the present martian climate.



For more information on the PHX mission see the following links:

Science Goals (PDF)
Mission Description
Spacecraft Description

PDS4 Primer:

For information on the new standards associated with PDS4 please browse the following links.

Concepts Document
Standards Reference

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Instrumentation and Access to Data:
Archive Bundles

Each of the following archive bundles contain data collections for system context, documentation for the data, individual data collections for raw, reduced, and/or derived data products complete with calibration information where applicable. Other products available from the Geosciences Node.

Meteorological Station (MET) data are stored as time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation for sols 1-150.

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data are stored as time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation for sols 1-150.

Atmospheric Structure Experiment (ASE) data are stored as time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation for Entry, Descent, and Landing.

Atmospheric Opacity (AO) data are stored as time-ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation for sols 1-151, derived from images from the SSI.

Telltale Anemometer (TT) data are stored as time-ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation for sols 1-151, derived from images from the SSI.