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Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (11) | 1

(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 | 4.4 / 5 (19) | 6

(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.

Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 23, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 0

(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 ...

Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 09, 2008 | 3 / 5 (4) | 1

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 Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 28, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

(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.

Phoenix Mars Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to View

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 10, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

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 ...

Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 29, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 7

(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 Mars Lander Extending Trench

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 15, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (7) | 2

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.

Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship

Biology /

Jun 20, 2007 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Cornell researchers have discovered that in the battle of the sexes, African electric fish couples not only use specific electrical signals to court but also engage in a sort of dueling "electric duet."

Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 10, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 24, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(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. ...

Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 12, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

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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