 Photo credit: Carla Bitter  Mission Engineer Rob Bovill giving a tour of the PIT.
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University Privacy Policy Schedule Your VisitVisit the Science Operations Center
We invite you to schedule your free visit to the Science Operations Center (SOC). Please use our online registration system to schedule a one hour visit. Families, individuals, and school groups are welcome. Your visit will begin with an overview and update of the Mission with time for Questions and Answers. You will also have time to explore the interactive exhibits and activities in the Payload Interoperability Testbed (PIT). In general, due to the nature of the facility and Mission, visits are not suitable for children under five. If you missed an opportunity to tour our whole facility in person, please check out our virtual guided tour here on our website. Please use the calendar to the left to sign up for your Friday Visit. You will receive an email confirmation and additional directions for your visit.
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THE MISSIONThe University of Arizona is honored to be the first university to lead a mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled for launch in August 2007, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program. Learn More
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The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is, with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Systems. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark; the Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Additional information on Phoenix is online at here and here. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Additional information on NASA's Mars program is online at here.
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