Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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While most spacecraft are designed and built from scratch for one particular mission, the Phoenix Lander was pieced together from previous missions and rose from the ashes...all the way to Mars.

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Sources:
nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080508.html
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-polar-lander-deep-space-2/in-depth
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=MS2001L
astrobiology.nasa.gov/missions/phoenix
nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fy23_nasa_budget_request_summary.pdf
nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Spacecraft_Classification.html
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/phoenix/in-depth
aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2012/august/flight-training-magazine/weather

Images:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_of_Orion_and_the_European_Service_Module_(32007138711).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mars_Lander,_side_view.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_landing.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Surveyor_2001_lander_with_Marie_Curie_rover_(cropped).jpg
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-polar-lander-deep-space-2/in-depth
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA13804-MarsPhoenixLander-Panorama-20080525b.jpg
nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/multimedia/radar-20080508.html
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radar_Altimetry2.jpg
gettyimages.com/detail/photo/eagle-fighter-plane-at-sunset-royalty-free-image/1176850442?adppopup=true
jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia10663-phoenix-extends-its-legs
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2325/phoenix-lander-descending-to-mars
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Twilight.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/phoenix/in-depth
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ph%C5%93nix_lander_at_the_northern_arctic_circle_of_Mars.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rovers_Sizes.jpg