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Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hoping-history-does-not-repeat-itself dept.

It doesn't come easy writes "There is a nice write-up over at Space.com about Phoenix, NASA's next Mars lander. The article includes a few more details about the steps NASA is taking to ensure a successful mission." The Phoenix project was first given the green light earlier this year and hopes to benefit from some hard lessons learned on earlier projects.

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  1. Re:They need tricorders by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: -1, Troll

    You fucking retard. Yeah, let's pick a bunch of random oligos since we have absolutely no idea what we might find, build a chip with enough genes on it to be worth the trouble, cart along the equipment to isolate and hybridize the rna and bring a scanner to analyze the chip. Hell, why don't we take Rosetta Resolver along just for kicks so we can analyze the data on Mars!

  2. Lessons learned by azcoffeehabit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like maybe correctly converting standard to metric?? Or maybe they just decided to do it all in metric and get it right the first time...

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