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Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
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Sea lampreys jettison one-fifth of their genome
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome. Shortly after a fertilized lamprey ...
Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 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 ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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 Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2008 |
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(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.
Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. ...
Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.
Phoenix Mars Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to View
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2008 |
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The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to instruct the spacecraft in the next few days to use its Robotic Arm to sprinkle a spoonful of Martian soil onto a wheel that will rotate the sample into ...
Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars
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May 12, 2008 |
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When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as the men and women who have spent years planning, analyzing and conducting tests to prepare ...
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