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Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
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
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 Digs Mars
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
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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Phoenix Sees Falling Snow, Data Suggest Liquid Past
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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Mars Lander Moves Rock to Study What's Beneath
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
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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Phoenix Images Discarded Heat Shield
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
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered more soil to its Wet Chemistry Laboratory.
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NASA's Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action
Phoenix has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.
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Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells
The next soil sample that Phoenix will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans.
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Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary
A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside Phoenix, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry.
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Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample
Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains.
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NASA Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities.
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NASA Mars Lander Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End
The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.
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Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test on NASA's Mars Lander
Phoenix has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer.
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Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
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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.