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Phoenix Mars Polar Lander Website Launched

Posted by michael on from the drilling-for-oil dept.

ciph3r writes "The Phoenix Mars Polar Lander mission has just launched their public website. '[The] mission is to land in the northern polar region of Mars (about 70 N latitude) in May 2008 and to expose the upper few feet of surface material using a robotic arm to find the ice that was discovered by the Odyssey mission in 2002. The history of this ice and its interaction with the martian atmosphere will be studied throughout the 3-month primary mission. This ice-rich soil may be one of the few habitable environments on Mars where a biological system can survive.'"

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  1. Re:The logo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd tell you, but you have a scam link in your sig.

  2. SI UNITS != IMPERIAL UNITS by Space_Soldier · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NASA, require your scientists to learn the conversions constants between SI and Imperial units unless you want history to repeat again! PS: SI rules!

  3. habitable by edp927 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This ice-rich soil may be one of the few habitable environments on Mars where a biological system can survive.

    Wouldn't it be more fun/interesting to check out the uninhabitable places that life could survive? Or maybe the habitable places it couldn't?