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Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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(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.
Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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(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.
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Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
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Jul 29, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists say that the scrapings are ...
Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft.
Phoenix Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End
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Aug 26, 2008 |
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(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.
Wandering poles left scars on Europa
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2008 |
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Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of California, ...
Phoenix Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
Scientist Explains Why Jupiter's Moon Europa Could Have Energetic Liquid Oceans
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists used to think that Jupiter and its moons - and most other bodies orbiting far from the Sun - were cold, icy, and probably barren. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the late ...
Researchers mimic high-pressure form of ice found in giant icy moons
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Mar 03, 2006 |
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That everyday ice you use to chill your glass of lemonade has helped researchers better understand the internal structure of icy moons in the far reaches of the solar system. A research team has demonstrated ...
Cassini finds mingling moons may share a dark past
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn’s icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine, one spongy, one two-faced, some still spewing with ...
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