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A Tale of Two Missions: Phoenix Lander

A Tale of Two Missions: Phoenix Lander

This is part two in our feature, A Tale of Two Missions, looking at the 2001 Mars Odyssey satellite and the Phoenix lander.  As we saw in part one, these…

IceBite Project Begins Drill Testing in Antarctica

When NASA’s Phoenix Lander touched down on the northern surface of Mars in May 2008, it landed on the very thing it had been sent to find: ice. Enough ice,…