Up-to-the-minute map of the Phoenix landing site

NASA / JPL / U. Arizona / Tim Parker

The Phoenix landing area

The 1, 2, and 3-sigma landing ellipses for Phoenix are overlaid on a base map composed of images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE and CTX cameras. This map of the Phoenix landing site is up-to-date as of May 19, 2008. The center of the landing area is at 68.151N, 233.975E.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Washington Univ. St. Louis / JHU APL / Univ. of Arizona / Tim Parker / Emily Lakdawalla

Phoenix landing site map as of May 19, 2008

Phoenix is scheduled to land May 25, 2008 in a region above Mars' Arctic Circle. Its 3-sigma landing ellipse (largest yellow oval, the region in which there is a 99% certainty that the lander will come to rest) is about 100 kilometers long and 19 kilometers wide, centered at 68.151 degrees north, 233.975 degrees east. This map is current as of May 19, 2008, a week before the landing, and accounts for a late northwestward shift of the target point. This map has been corrected from previous versions, which had the lines of longitude mislabeled, with the result that the ellipses were shifted from their correct locations by half a degree.