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NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander
11.03.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
10.29.08 - Phoenix, with its solar-electric power shrinking due to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, did not respond to an orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
10.29.08 - NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
10.28.08 - In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
10.28.08 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars.
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Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs
10.17.08 - Phoenix has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained.
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Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil Sample
10.17.08 - Phoenix successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer on Monday, Oct. 13.
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Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
10.15.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission is being honored with a Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics magazine today in New York City.
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Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
10.14.08 - The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is ack investigating the Red Planet's northern plains.
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Phoenix Braves Dust and Winds
10.15.08 - High winds and dust devils blew through Phoenix's landing site last weekend. These two short videos show them in action.
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Phoenix Digs Mars
10.10.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7.
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Phoenix Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
10.08.08 - As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
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NASA's Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission
10.09.08 - The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.
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Phoenix Sees Falling Snow, Data Suggest Liquid Past
09.29.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on Mars
09.25.08 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.
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Mars Lander Moves Rock to Study What's Beneath
09.23.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander slid a rock into a nearby trench Monday to gain access to the soil under the rock.
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NASA's Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock
09.22.08 - If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath.
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NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater
09.22.08 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
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Phoenix Images Discarded Heat Shield
09.17.08 - A new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft.
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More Soil Delivered to Phoenix Lab
09.16.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered more soil to its Wet Chemistry Laboratory.