http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's science and relay operations within about a week. http://www.physorg.com/news178907664.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:34:56 EST news178907664 Scientists with NASA`s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica`s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their objective: to test a set of ice-penetrating drills and select one for use on a future mission to the martian polar north, the same region of the planet that NASA`s Phoenix lander investigated in 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news177613575.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:23 EST news177613575 (PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news176629880.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:52:02 EST news176629880 (PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C http://www.physorg.com/news172502798.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:30:01 EST news172502798 Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission. http://www.physorg.com/news159548452.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:01:26 EST news159548452 (PhysOrg.com) -- Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the planet, according to analysis by a group of mission scientists led by a University of Michigan professor. This is the first time liquid water has been detected and photographed outside the Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news156526578.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:36:48 EST news156526578 (AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death? http://www.physorg.com/news155990881.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:59:16 EST news155990881 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough to modify the chemistry, producing effects that persist through the colder times. http://www.physorg.com/news148581442.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:37:22 EST news148581442 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news147459818.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:03:38 EST news147459818 (PhysOrg.com) -- Carlos Lange has some sentimental thoughts about the shut down of the Phoenix Mars Lander, but science never sleeps and he's set his sights on a new mission to the Red Planet. http://www.physorg.com/news146234489.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:29 EST news146234489 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters. Information received over the weekend indicates Phoenix is running out of power each afternoon or evening but reawakening after its solar arrays catch morning sunlight. http://www.physorg.com/news145016383.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:19:43 EST news145016383 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander, 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. http://www.physorg.com/news144607044.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:37:24 EST news144607044 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news144511029.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:57:09 EST news144511029 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained. Scientists are anxious to analyze the samples as the power Phoenix generates continues to drop. The amount of sunlight is waning on Mars' northern plains as late-summer turns to fall. http://www.physorg.com/news143909255.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:47:35 EST news143909255 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA) on Monday, Oct. 13, or Martian day (sol) 137 of the mission. http://www.physorg.com/news143735202.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:26:42 EST news143735202 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains. http://www.physorg.com/news143306044.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:14:04 EST news143306044 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news142785747.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:42:27 EST news142785747 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news141922470.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:54:30 EST news141922470 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news141320965.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:49:25 EST news141320965 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft. http://www.physorg.com/news140974952.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:42:32 EST news140974952 Scientists working on the Phoenix Mars Mission are analyzing soil delivered to the spacecraft's Wet Chemistry Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news140883837.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:23:57 EST news140883837 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 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. http://www.physorg.com/news140445306.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:35:06 EST news140445306 (PhysOrg.com) -- New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having. http://www.physorg.com/news139163064.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:24:24 EST news139163064 (PhysOrg.com) -- From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. http://www.physorg.com/news139073545.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:32:25 EST news139073545 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news138977606.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:53:26 EST news138977606 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making overnight measurements of conductivity in the Martian soil and depositing a sample of surface soil into a gap between partially opened doors to an analytical oven on the lander. http://www.physorg.com/news137685829.html Space & Earth Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:03:49 EST news137685829 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news137250470.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:07:50 EST news137250470 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news136565999.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:59:59 EST news136565999 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news136477841.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:30:41 EST news136477841 (PhysOrg.com) -- Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by the robotic arm, in addition to atmosphere observations in coordination with simultaneous observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news136044024.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:24 EST news136044024