Members of NASA Phoenix Mars Mission's Robotic Arm engineering team test
the arm's motorized rasp in the Payload Interoperability Testbed at the
University of Arizona, Tucson. The testbed has a near-duplicate of the
Phoenix lander for use in developing techniques to be used on Mars and for
checking commands planned for the lander.
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf
of NASA. Project management of the mission is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin
Space Systems, Denver.
