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Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil Sample
Phoenix's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer on Monday, Oct. 13.
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Unusual Mound in North Polar Layered Deposits
Martian Polar Layer Erosion Looks Striking In a newly released image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unusual mound punctuates dramatic stripes of Martian polar terrain where icy layers are eroding.
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Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission is being honored with a Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics magazine today in New York City. In its fourth year, the awards recognize innovators who improve lives and expand possibilities in science, technology, engineering and exploration.
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Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains.
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Phoenix Digs Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7.
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NASA's Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission
The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.
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Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
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NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.
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Rock Moved by Mars Lander Arm
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander slid a rock into a nearby trench Monday to gain access to the soil under the rock.
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NASA'S Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock
If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath.
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NASA'S Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
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Morning Frost in Martian Trench
A Sept. 18 false-color image from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows morning frost and subsurface ice in a trench where the lander was working.
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Images Galore From Mars
Newly posted images from more than 1,000 observations by the high resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal details as small as a
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