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First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.





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NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample

NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.


Phoenix's 'Footprints' on Mars

Phoenix Lander Leaves 'Footprints' on Mars

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created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 3

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.


Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs

Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs

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created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(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 ...


Astronauts Check Out Japanese Robotic Arm

Astronauts Check Out Japanese Robotic Arm

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created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the third and final spacewalk completed Sunday, the Expedition 17 and STS-124 crews are heading into the home stretch of their joint mission.


Artist's concept of Phoenix on the surface of Mars

Mars probe Phoenix flexes robotic arm

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created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said.


Astronauts Move Japanese Exposed Section to Station

Astronauts Move Japanese Exposed Section to Station

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts completed the delicate move of the Japanese Experiment Section from Endeavour's payload bay to the end of the Japanese Exposed Section, the so-called "porch" on the Kibo ...


Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

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created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 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

Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample

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created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 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 Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope

Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope

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created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early Thursday confirmed.


NASA Spacecraft to Carry Russian Science Instruments

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created Oct 03, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos have agreed to fly two Russian scientific instruments on NASA spacecraft that will conduct unprecedented robotic missions to the moon and Mars.



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