# Phoenix Mars lander 3D model

> Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.

Free 3D model of Phoenix Mars lander, a lander or rover, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 14,424 triangles, 124 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Landers and rovers
- **Mission:** Landers and rovers
- **Triangles:** 14,424
- **File:** phoenix.glb, 124 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 5.5 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/phoenix.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/phoenix.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=phoenix
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Phoenix Mars lander 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/phoenix/

## How it was made

Built in code from published dimensions and photographs, with no image-to-3D generator and no one else’s mesh. 3D model: built by Space Radar from published dimensions and NASA/JPL photographs (public domain).

built by this project in code (release 1.4.0 stage r14-m8's scripts, one a craft, on release 1.3.0's part library, kept with the stage's notes), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (NASA's 3D Resources on GitHub, 1 583 paths, science.nasa.gov/3d-resources, 377 entries, and NASA Science's 3D-type resources have none of these craft; Lavochkin publishes none; read 2026-10-26)

## Dimensions

- Span: 5.5 m
- Deck: 1.5 m
- Height to mast top: 2.2 m
- Array area: 7 m²
- Arm reach: 2.35 m

Source: CITED, 5.5 m: Wikipedia "Phoenix (spacecraft)" (read 2026-10-26) "About 5.5 m (18 ft) long with the solar panels deployed." Drawn 5.42 m tip to tip. CITED, 1.5 m: same page, "The science deck by itself is about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in diameter." Drawn 1.5 m across the short way; OURS 1.9 m along the arrays (read off NASA's drawing against the 5.5 m). CITED, 2.2 m: same page, "From the ground to the top of the MET mast, the lander measures about 2.2 m (7.2 ft) tall." Drawn 2.23 m. OURS: the deck's top 1.10 m above the ground. CITED, 7.0 m2: same page, "two gallium arsenide solar array panels (total area 7.0 m2 (75 ft2)) deployed from the lander after touchdown". Drawn as two ten-sided arrays of 1.09 m circumradius = 2 x 3.49 m2 = 7.0 m2. NSSDCA 2007-034A (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2007-034A, read 2026-10-26) says "octagonal solar panel wings"; the photographs (refs 1 and 2) show ten sides, which is what is drawn and what makes the cited area. OURS: the sides and the 24-leaf fan seams. CITED: NSSDCA, "The spacecraft comprises an octagonal base supported on three landing legs." Drawn: an octagon deck (OURS: chamfers), three legs. CITED, 2.35 m: Wikipedia, "The robotic arm was designed to extend 2.35 m (7.7 ft) from its base on the lander". Drawn: upper arm 1.1 m, forearm 1.0 m, wrist and scoop 0.25 m. OURS: the deployed pose (where the arm ended is not published). CITED: MET mast "1 m (3.3 ft) vertical mast ... at heights of approximately 250, 500 and 1,000 mm above the lander deck". Drawn: three thermocouple booms at those heights. - OURS: footpad radius 1.3 m, leg barrel 0.14 m, tank, bay and pod sizes, every instrument box, the positions on the deck (read off refs 3, 4 and 8).

## References

- [Phoenix Mars Lander during assembly and testing (PIA09701)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mars_Lander_during_assembly_and_testing_(PIA09701).jpg), NASA/JPL/UA/Lockheed Martin (Public domain (NASA/JPL/UA/Lockheed Martin; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Mars Lander in testing PIA01885](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mars_Lander_in_testing_PIA01885.jpg), NASA/JPL (Public domain (NASA/JPL; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Drawing-Phoenix-lander](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing-Phoenix-lander.png), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix spacecraft model](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_spacecraft_model.png), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Deck after Sample Deliveries](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Deck_after_Sample_Deliveries.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Self-Portrait, Day 2](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-Portrait,_Day_2.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Robotic Arm PIA09207](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Robotic_Arm_PIA09207.jpg), NASA/JPL (Public domain (NASA/JPL; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Scoop](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Scoop.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Leg of Phoenix spacecraft](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leg_of_Phoenix_spacecraft.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Mars Lander](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mars_Lander.jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))
- [Phoenix Mars Lander, side view](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mars_Lander,_side_view.jpg), NASA/JPL/Corby Waste (Public domain (NASA/JPL/Corby Waste; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-26))