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Phoenix Makes First Trench in Science Preserve
One of the ovens on Phoenix continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material.
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NASA's Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper
One of the ovens on Phoenix continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
New observations from Phoenix provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil.
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NASA's Phoenix Lander has an Oven Full of Martian Soil
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil.
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NASA Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to View
The team operating Phoenix plans to instruct the spacecraft in the next few days to use its Robotic Arm to sprinkle a spoonful of Martian soil onto a wheel that will rotate the sample into place for viewing by the spacecraft's Optical Microscope.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Testing Sprinkle Technique
Engineers operating the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander are testing a revised method for delivering soil samples to laboratory instruments on Phoenix's deck now that researchers appreciate how clumpy the soil is at the landing site.
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Phoenix Sifts for Samples, Continues Imaging Landing Site
On Sunday, Sol 14 of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis later in the week.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil Properties
The arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto a screened opening of a laboratory instrument on the spacecraft Friday, but the instrument did not confirm that any of the sample passed through the screen.
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NASA Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample for Laboratory Analysis
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck.
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Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander
A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Ready to Gather Samples
Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave team members confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck.
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NASA'S Phoenix Retesting Release of Martian Soil
Engineers and scientists operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided early today to repeat a practice test of releasing Martian soil from the scoop on the lander's Robotic Arm.
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NASA's Phoenix Scoops up Martian Soil
One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.
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NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes an Impression on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
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Camera on Arm Looks Beneath NASA Mars Lander
A view of the ground underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander adds to evidence that descent thrusters dispersed overlying soil and exposed a harder substrate that may be ice.
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NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to Work
Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25.
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NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to Work
NASA's Mars lander is returning more detailed images from the Martian surface and is now preparing its instruments for science operations.
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NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm
Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.
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Orbiter Relays Second-Day Information From NASA Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth.