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  Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples

  June 14, 2008 — New observations from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale. In the past two ... > full story
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  NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil

  June 11, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. The lander's Robotic Arm delivered a partial scoopful of clumpy soil from a trench informally called "Baby Bear" to the number ... > full story
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  Technology Enrolled In Hunt For Life On Mars

  June 10, 2008 — Scientists looking for evidence of life on Mars have turned to technology invented by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers to help with their mission. A team from NASA's Jet ... > full story
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  Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander

  June 5, 2008 — A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet. The mission's Optical Microscope observed ... > full story
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  Phoenix Mars Lander Ready To Gather Samples

  June 4, 2008 — Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's ... > full story
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  Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil

  June 2, 2008 — One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic ... > full story
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  NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes An Impression On Mars

  June 2, 2008 — 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 ... > full story
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  Mars' Water Appears To Have Been Too Salty To Support Life

  May 29, 2008 — A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet -- and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life -- now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too ... > full story
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  Where Man Boldly Goes, Bacteria Follow

  May 28, 2008 — Life in outer space is an absolute certainty, and it is likely to be more familiar than we might think, according to an article in Microbiology Today. Ever since the start of the space race we have ... > full story
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  Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded To Unstow Arm

  May 28, 2008 — Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today. The Phoenix ... > full story

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