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Phoenix Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
Phoenix has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
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Phoenix Oven Receives Soil Sample
Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
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Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard NASA's Phoenix Lander.
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Phoenix Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample.
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Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.
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Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.
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Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
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Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on Delivery
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.
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Phoenix Scoop Ready for Sampling
Phoenix's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.
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Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample Analysis
The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
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NASA Phoenix Lander Completes Longest Work Shift
Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night
To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.
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NASA Mars Lander to Dig; Team Probes Flash Memory
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data.
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Phoenix Continues Tests with Rasp
The team operating Phoenix plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
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3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander.
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NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars
Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.