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PASADENA, Calif. -- After a nearly 10-month journey, a NASA spacecraft will land softly today on the northern polar region of Mars, if all goes as planned.
The Phoenix Mars Lander is set to touch down in a broad, shallow valley in the Martian arctic plains believed to hold a vast supply of underground ice. Phoenix's job during the 90-day mission is to excavate the soil and ice to study whether the site could have supported microbial life.See the full content of this document
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Mars Spacecraft Nearing Do-or-Die
The stakes are especially high: Fewer than half of the world's attempts to land on the Red Planet have...
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