Phoenix Landing
Published: May 25th, 2008
Images from the phoenix lander are now coming in. The craft landed just before 8pm EST this evening and will look for signs of water on the planet Mars. I don’t know why, but this blows my mind every time.
Of course, there is this reality back here on planet Earth:
The human tragedy wrought by the global drinking water crisis is profound, but has not been enough to move the world to solve what is perhaps its worst health problem. More than 1 billion people on the globe lack access to safe drinking water, more than 2 billion lack sanitation. Most troubling, 2 million to 10 million people — mostly children — die every year from contaminated water. That’s more than 5,000 children who die daily.
