Early Saturday, NASA launched its Phoenix Lander mission to Mars. So far, the flight is going perfectly.
Phoenix is designed to land within the Martian Arctic Circle next May and use a long robotic arm to dig into the ice and soil in a search for organic compounds that might suggest earlier life on Mars. That's the official objective of NASA and the scientific community. We know, however, that life is extremely adaptive. We know part of the polar ice is water ice. Some scientists think water may exist under the surface of Mars. Finding live life is not completely out of the question.
Next summer could be a fascinating time.
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