Phoenix Mars Lander: How to Hunt for Martian Ice


	Phoenix Mars Lander: How to Hunt for Martian Ice

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c7ce7c5b-d275-4e8c-8913-76b58212706b/71E156EA-6CED-4D30-9031-E6B799AD0586/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html" href="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/FD820214-F92B-4B66-A6D6-AEAA89FFF98C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html"><SPAN>The Phoenix
Mars Lander set to land Sunday may represent a clean slate for NASA's past
failed or canceled Martian missions, but its technological lineage also
resembles Frankenstein's monster.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html"><SPAN>The
spacecraft will land on the red planet with baggage that includes a
backhoe-like robotic arm, a miniature chemistry set, and a laser-guided weather
station.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html"><SPAN>"Most
of the instruments have heritage from other missions," said Michael Gross,
 Phoenix payload manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080521-tw-mars-lander-instruments.html"><SPAN>Those
heritage technologies developed for previous Mars missions such as Mars
Surveyor Lander and Mars Polar Lander came in useful to outfit the $420 million
<A href="http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080514-pheonix-cruise">Phoenix
mission</A>, which seeks to uncover the history of water on Mars by digging
beneath the arctic surface. The spacecraft is set to land on May 25 on a
six-month mission to determine whether the region may have once been habitable
for primitive life.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71E156EA-6CED-4D30-9031-E6B799AD0586/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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