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NASA Phoenix Results Point to Martian Climate Cycles
Nutrients and episodes with thin films of water during long-term climate cycles may sometimes make arctic Mars a favorable environment for microbes.
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NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award
NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter.
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NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.
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NASA Mars Lander Receives Award From Magazine
Phoenix has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publication's "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
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Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
Mission Features
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Award to Recognize Phoenix Mars Lander Team
02.19.09 - The team that developed and operated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission will receive the 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation.
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Antarctic Expedition Helped Prepare for Mars Project
02.04.09 - Before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies to aid in the analysis of Mars data.
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Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation Award →
11.19.08 - The University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission.