Items tagged with mars

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Phoenix Takes Image of Martian Dust Particle Saturday, August 16th, 2008 - 20:48:57 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. The... read more

Phoenix Lander Confirms Ice on Mars Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 - 14:30:49 - Anuradha Menon Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to... read more

Solar-Powered Asteroids Make Their Own Moons Thursday, July 10th, 2008 - 10:10:31 - Ehud Rattner Most asteroids with moonlets started off as solitary bodies that split in two while sunbathing, new computer simulations suggest. Once thought to be... read more

Planets Align for the 4th of July Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 10:51:02 - Anuradha Menon No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds is... read more

Solar System's Biggest Impact Scar Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - 16:03:24 - Ehud Rattner Every scar tells a story, yet a huge gash on Mars has long proven very hard to read. Now a peek beneath the planet's surface reveals that the scar is... read more

Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Microscopy Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 - 22:11:02 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June... read more

Ice on Mars Confirmed? Saturday, June 21st, 2008 - 08:34:55 - Iddo Genuth Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago... read more

Mars Lander May Have Found Ice Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 08:28:39 - Ehud Rattner The Phoenix lander has uncovered a patch of what may be ice on the border of a polygon-shaped section of soil in Mars's northern plains. The lander's... read more

Phoenix Inspects Martian Soil Saturday, June 14th, 2008 - 18:14:09 - Iddo Genuth New observations from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even... read more

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