Phoenix lander nears its martian destination

This Sunday evening, 171 million miles beyond its builders' ability to do anything but watch and bite their nails as they monitor events that happened 15 minutes earlier, NASA's appropriately named Phoenix spacecraft will slam into the upper atmosphere of Mars at a blistering 12,527 mph some 77.6 miles above the red planet's frozen surface.

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