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Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(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 ...


Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(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 ...


Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit

Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit

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created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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


Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years

Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (44) | comments 11

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.


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Report: Images from Mars lander show liquid water

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?


NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

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created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10

(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 ...


Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander

Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander

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created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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 ...