Big Mountain on Little Red Planet
In celebration of the 25 May 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander’s touchdown on the Little Red Planet, I decided to republish some of my earlier Mars related edutoons.
From Wikipedia:
Phoenix is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The scientists conducting the mission will use instruments aboard the Phoenix lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there. The multi-agency program is headed by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, under the direction of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The program is a partnership of universities in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, the Philippines, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, and other aerospace companies.[1]
Phoenix is the sixth successful landing on Mars, out of twelve total international attempts (the sixth successful landing of seven American attempts). It is the third successful static lander and the first since Viking 2, and as of 2008 the most recent spacecraft to land successfully on Mars. It is also the first successful landing on a polar region of Mars.
Read MoreDoodle Week – Doodle Me
I’m a self confessed doodle addict, a doodlemaniac, a doodleholic. Just so happens there’s a special week for us doodle heads. Beginning 8th of May and lasting until the 14th of May – it’s Doodle Week! Here’s my first doodle of the week (I’m just a little early, I know). It’s a doodle me 
Draw a doodle each day of the week in your blog or…. pick one day out of the week and doodle your merry way.
You want some themes with those doodles – well here ya go:
May 8th – Doodle You, try your hand at doodling yourself. From a stick person to whatever.
May 9th – Doodle Monster, I had many a little monster I use to doodle as a kid. Some of these have evolved into rather bizarre looking creatures. What is hiding in your cupboard or under the bed?
May 10th – Doodle Animal, Do you have a animal that you have always doodled?
May 11th – Doodle Flower
May 12th – Doodle Phone book scribble/Day dreaming scribble, I think this is when I get really doodly, normally its while I am sat in class and then cant make sense of my notes because I have doodled all over them.
May 13th – Doodle Abstract
May 14th – Doodle Mad
Please post in the comments here or in Claire’s blog, Stickfiguregirl or on the EntreCard post about Doodle Week. Everyone who takes part will be included in a blogroll. At the end of Doodle Week all the participants will be listed in once place so we can make it a social event and visit each doodler.
There’s a Doodle Week group on Flickr. Be sure to upload your doodles to the group too!
Happy doodling!
Read MoreMars Educational Cartoons
Little red planet’s Mars educational cartoon series. Be sure to check out the whole series.
Mars Cartoon – Olympus Mons
This was one in my series of Mars educational cartoons. If you want to see the whole series check out my gallery on deviantart.com You’ll need to look at the very end of the gallery to find them! Let me know what you think 