The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab, led by Peter Smnith, is in charge of the Phoenix Mars Mission, which launched in August from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Television viewers who are curious to learn more about UA's role with the Mars mission can watch a new KUAT-produced documentary called, "Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice." This one-hour, high definition production will premiere at 9 p.m. Tuesday on KUAT, Channel 6 and in HDTV on KUAS, Channel 27-1. If you miss it the first time it will air again on KUAT at 2 a.m. Wednesday, 11 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday.
More times include: Nov.11 at 3 p.m. and at noon Nov.22 on KUAT. The documentary features interviews with the mission's scientific team, whose members ral about the spacecraft's instruments and the preparations that preceded the pre-dawn launch from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft is scheduled to land in the northern polar region of Mars in June of 2008. If successful, the Phoenix's ultra-sensitive instruments will have around 90 days to learn about the history of the water on Mars and search for oraganic compunds in the ice-rich soil of the plante's northern polar region.
A second installment about this mission is being planned by KUAT, the installment is to trace the space vehicle's journey, landing and early experiments on MArs. It sets to air in 2009. This $420 million mission is head-quarter at theUA, marking the first time NASA has allowed a publicuniversity to have an off-site control of a Mars Program.
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