Well it's almost time when the Phoenix Lander will land (I hope) on Mars at the end of this month! My question however is why are we going back to old way of landing a probe on Mars? Why not the airbag method this time? Isn't the airbag method 3/3 now? What's the parachute/rocket rate of failure? I know it didn't work so well for the Polar Lander.

Please tell me they made some improvements? I would like to read an article to make me feel better about this landing. I don't want to see NASA FAILURE! All over the news again. Can someone point me in the right direction on maybe why they went back to this type of method and hopefully they learned from the mistakes they made with the Polar Lander? Let me know...thank you.