Phoenix has finally reached the Northern Martian surface after a trip spanning many millions of miles. The successful touchdown is hopefully a sign of the times and of good fortune to many future Mars missions. Humanity once again reaches forth from our native cradle of life seeking to expand our knowledge of the natural universe with increasingly great achievements such as this!
Thanks! (Although I had no involvement with Phoenix)
I have coworkers who worked on the biobarrier and arm, so I have to wait for the first set of pictures to confirm the biobarrier deployment before I congratulate anyone.
So I see the ops team all standing around laughing, but aren't there some post-landing activities or commanding to do? I would think you have some configuring of the machine to do, especially solar panel deployment and stuff.