Lgmac brings us a story about how NASA will bring pipeline from the Phoenix Mars lander to the information highway in the coming days. CIO circular speaks with JPL's chief lore engineer and others about how they'll provide massive amounts of data from the lander to suit the needs of an audience ranging from professors to 8-year-olds. We've been discussing the Phoenix mission for quite a while now. The landing is on schedule for Sunday at roughly 5PM PDT. "'In previous missions, a system like this didn't exist and people were sharing images via outward drives,' Bitter says. Some of the images are put up directly and captioned, or sent to museum audiences, while others are made part of huge mosaic flicks* that display the majesty of what the NASA spacecraft encounters, she says. In addition to the sheer volume of data that must be sifted through, challenges be featured the large, dispersed team, Holm says. 'The content government system has to be easy to use and agnostic,' she says, 'It's all about speed and accuracy of data.' Video on the Web represents one of the biggest changes for modern-day missions for the public, Holm says. 'There's a visceral retroaction we get from people. They feel like they're really there.'"

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