| Part of Series | Quirks & Quarks |
| Length | 53:00 |
| Licensor | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Producer(s) | Jim Handman, Executive Producer |
| Formats | Interview |
| Topics | Environment, Science, Technology |
| Produced | May 16, 2008 |
| Added to PRX | May 16, 2008 |
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Canada's national weekly science program
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/07-08/may17.html
English
Phoenix Landing.
In just over a week's time, NASA's Phoenix Lander will arrive at the surface of Mars. Then, if everything goes well, it will land and spend the next three months studying the northern polar region of the Red Planet. It's looking for water, and evidence that life may have once existed on Mars. But there are a lot of fingers crossed at NASA right now. Mars landers frequently don't make it to the surface in one piece, and this one's going to an area that no one's explored before. We'll talk to the scientist who helped pick the landing site, and to a Canadian researcher who's sending along an instrument to watch the Martian weather.
Plus - eyes as sharp as a shrimp...
