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NASA Mars Lander Prepares To Move Arm
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow.
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Lockheed Martin-Built Phoenix Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Mars
Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2008 - NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. Late Sunday afternoon, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice.
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Mars Cold Goes Down Deep
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2008 - New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.
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NASA restores radio contact with Phoenix Mars lander
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - NASA has cleared up a malfunction that for several hours caused a rupture in communications between Phoenix Mars Lander, the US space agency said Wednesday.
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Radio glitch hinders Mars lander mission
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.
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Camera On Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2008 - A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
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The Radar SHARAD Completes The Mars Stratigraphy
Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008 - The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy.
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NASA probe sends first pictures from Martian arctic
Washington (AFP) May 26, 2008 - A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet.
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Phoenix Set To Rise Tomorrow For A Busy 90 Days On Mars
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 26, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 26, 2008 - A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. The images from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander also provided a glimpse of the flat valley floor expected to have water-rich permafrost within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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In Bound At Mars Speed And Some More
Pasadena, CA (JPL) May 25, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has safely landed on Mars. With all immediate post launch steps completed. Images from the landing zone will hopefully be available in about two hours. This is the first successful rocket landing on Mars since 1976.
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MDA Solution To Look For Clues Of Water Above And Below The Surface Of Mars
Richmond, Canada (SPX) May 25, 2008 - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates reports that its engineers are preparing to support a Space mission which will look for evidence of water on Mars. As NASA's Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a May 25th landing on Mars, engineers from MDA will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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NASA probe lands in Martian arctic on search for life
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2008 - An ambitious effort to determine whether Mars' arctic region was ever habitable for microbial forms of life got underway Sunday when NASA landed the Phoenix probe near the Red Planet's north pole.
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Phoenix Lands On Mars
Pasadena CA (AFP) May 25, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has safely landed on Mars. With all immediate post launch steps completed. Images from the landing zone will hopefully be available in about two hours. This is the first successful rocket landing on Mars since 1976.
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Phoenix Lands On Mars For First Polar Mission
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2008 - An ambitious effort to determine whether Mars' arctic region was ever habitable for microbial forms of life got underway Sunday when NASA landed the Phoenix probe near the Red Planet's north pole.
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Phoenix Mission To Mars Will Search For Climate Clues
On May 25, 2008, approaching 5 p.m. PDT, NASA scientists will be wondering: Just how green is their valley?