Send your name to Mars -- ends February 1, 2007

I went upstairs to check on my dad and as I was up there the radio station was talking about the ability to send a name to the planet Mars. If you log in to www.planetary.org/phoenixdvd before February 1, 2007, and submit your name, and/or the names of the anyone else that you wish to enter, the Planetary Society will place the name(s) on a special DVD made of silica glass that will be placed on NASA's Phoenix lander. the Phoenix is to explore the Martian arctic and will launch in August of 2007, landing on Mars in may of 2008.



The Phoenix DVD is designed to be a message to future visitors, or settlers, of the planet Mars. It includes commentary from Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Louis Friedman (executive director of the Planetary Society), and Peter Smith (Phoenix mission PI). the visionary works of those who should our images of Mars such as Percival Lowell, H.J. Wells. The recording of Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of Wells' classic "War of the Worlds" will be digitally encoded on the Phoenix DVD.



Other names of note whose visions will be on the DVD include: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Poul Anderson.





Adding your name to this message to the future is free and must be done before February 01, 2007.