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Photos boost belief Mars lander has bared ice
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PHOENIX - Sharp new images received Saturday from the Phoenix lander largely convinced scientists that the spacecraft's thrusters had uncovered a large patch of ice just below the Martian surface, team members said. (article 5)
That bodes well for the mission's main goal of digging for ice that can be tested for evidence of organic compounds that are the chemical building blocks of life. (article 5)
Washington University scientist Ray Arvidson said the spacecraft's thrusters may have blown away dirt covering the ice when the robot landed one week ago. (article 5)
As of late Friday, the Phoenix lander had 9,636 followers at Twitter, more than triple the number of a week earlier. (article 8)
An image captured by the robotic-arm camera from underneath the lander may be of ice that was exposed when soil was blown away during the spacecraft's landing last Sunday, NASA scientists said in a release Friday. (article 4)
After a dramatic deceleration through Mars's thin atmosphere that ended with a gentle landing in welcoming rock-free terrain, NASA's Phoenix mission now stands ready to go to work. (article 1)
" Everything just worked like a charm says Barry Goldstein which ran mission control for the landing. (article 1)
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lander, Phoenix, Mars, ice, NASA |
Source articles
- Phoenix set for three-month dig on Mars (Nature Journals, 05/30/2008, 844 words)
- Phoenix descending (Nature Journals, 05/30/2008, 713 words)
- Lump spotted on Mars might be ice (sfgate.com, 05/31/2008, 713 words)
- NASA lander sends more Mars pictures, uses Canadian laser for tasks (cbc.ca, 05/30/2008, 628 words)
- Photos boost belief Mars lander has bared ice (msnbc.msn.com, 05/31/2008, 491 words)
- Spacecraft seems to have landed on Martian ice, scientists say (cbc.ca, 05/31/2008, 273 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 05/29/2008, 10 words)
- Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 103 words)
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