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By rss@youtube.com (mars2057) Team Wins 2009 Swigert Award for Space Exploration | UANews.org "The Phoenix Mars Lander became only the sixth spacecraft to land successfully on Mars when it touched down on May 25, 2008. The lander surpassed its original three-month mission, lasting five months in the Martian northern...

By rss@youtube.com (arczangelz) Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to researc...

By rss@youtube.com (MarsExplorationRover) 720p High Definition) This is a little documentary of Phoenix´s Landing. Author: MarsExplorationRover Keywords: phoenix mars lander minutes of terror Added: January 24, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (MarsExplorationRover) 720p High Definition) This is the Tribute of the Phoenix Mission. View the Overwiev of this Mars Lander. Author: MarsExplorationRover Keywords: phoenix mars lander tribute Added: January 23, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (basvg1) Video about the landing of the Phoenix Mars lander. Author: basvg1 Keywords: nasa spaceflight phoenix mars Added: November 17, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (shotsavenolan) a short farewell to Phoenix Mars lander Author: shotsavenolan Keywords: Phoenix Added: November 13, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (tedsters) NASA Video set to a song made for Phoenix. A tribute to Phoenix. Author: tedsters Keywords: NASA Phoenix Madonna Mars lander Added: November 11, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (Cdnspaceagency) What times is it on Mars? Learn how the Phoenix team adapts to life on Mars time. Author: Cdnspaceagency Keywords: aviation space Phoenix Mars lander NASA Canadian Space Agency Arizona weather meteorological station Added: November 6, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (ScienceChannel) What is the Phoenix Mars lander looking for? Author: ScienceChannel Keywords: mars space week phoenix life ice Added: October 13, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (Cdnspaceagency) Meet the scientists and engineers behind Phoenix's Canadian-built weather station. Follow the adventure at http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/exploration/phoenix.asp The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona, supported by a scien...

The UA-run Phoenix Mars lander scraped the surface of our planetary neighbor to verify the presence of frozen water on Mars, and now cameras orbiting the red planet have found a meter-thick layer of nearly pure ice in recently formed craters.

Fresh images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander from the Martian northern polar region indicate that most of its science instruments are in good shape, ... and more »

Aerojet's Propulsion Critical to Delta II Launch of Air Force ... PR Newswire (press release) as well as the Phoenix Mars Lander, the recent NASA Kepler mission, THEMIS, MESSENGER and the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft, to name a few. ... and more »

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Stargazing opens search into life's big questions The Republican - MassLive.com for extraterrestrial life, with abundant evidence of liquid water in its past, and ice in its present, discovered by the Phoenix mission's Mars lander. ...

Landing instruments such as the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Phoenix Mars Lander on the surface of the ... and more »

While the rover's landing site won't be as far north as was the Phoenix Mars Lander's (which landed last summer in the arctic plains of Mars), it will be further north of NASA's two rovers currently on the Martian surface, Spirit and Opportunity. ... Inside the rover factory msnbc.com

 NY By Freakonomics NASA research suggests that there may be life on Mars after all — but that, up 'til now, we've been destroying it when we visit. (Does this hurt the case for space exploration?) As New Scientist tells the tale, The Phoenix Mars lander, ...

Schuerger's past research found at least 13 separate factors on Mars that can kill Earth microbes, not counting perchlorate salts uncovered by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in the polar region of Mars. Still, current NASA missions to Mars take precautions ...

  MA Marchant's understanding of how buried ice deforms the Earth's surface in Antarctica helped NASA scientists guide the Phoenix Mars Lander to the sample of Martian ice that it scooped up last summer. In addition, Marchant and researchers from Brown ...

 CA This looks like more confirmation of what was earlier reported (see "Scientists: Phoenix Mars Lander Found Liquid Water.", 'Americans in Space', Mar 10, 2009) by scientists about the Mars water issue. By trying to closely replicate conditions on Mars ...

 CA Ihde showed photos taken by the Mars Phoenix Lander and mentioned JPL's plans to launch another Mars rover in two years. The reception also included astronaut snacks, such as the Styrofoam-like space ice cream and Tang, made popular by NASA astronauts ...

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor A growing number of space experts believe that they may have been going about finding life on Mars the wrong way. They argue that landers such as the twin Vikings and the Phoenix Mars Lander may have unwillingly destroyed ...

 CA We are all over our solar system... we have 2 functioning rovers on Mars since (gasp) 2004! That's 5 years! Doing amazing science. Space is hard. We're just coming up on the 1-year anniversary of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, which plunked itself ...

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 Canada Next shuttle mission: STS-127, slated for liftoff on June 13, on a trip to the International Space Station. Do you remember what you were doing a year ago? You may recall the Phoenix Mars lander touched down on the Red Planet a year ago, ...

 ND NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took its first practice scoop of Martian soil. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died in Paris at age 71. Today's Birthdays: Actor Richard Erdman is 84. Actor Andy Griffith is 83. Actor Edward Woodward is 79. ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging ... fr.truveo.com

 Romania The theory was confirmed by the Phoenix Mars Lander, which acquired the first samples on location, as it descended on the planet's surface. The probe also hinted at the fact that salts in the soils must have allowed the water to remain liquid at ...

 AZ One of the more amazing moments I experienced at the Citizen was being with the Tucson-based science team for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission when the spacecraft safely settled on the planet's surface May 25, 2008. The craft faced a danger-filled ...

Tweet to Earth: 'Launch was awesome!!' Then the message is passed along to Massimino's Twitter account by NASA. The space agency has also created Twitter accounts for many of its space missions, including a popular Twitter feed that was ghost-written for the Phoenix Mars Lander. ...

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As the Phoenix Mars Lander sits patiently through the Martian winter, members of the UA team back on Earth are analyzing data and discovering just how likely it is that life exists on the red planet. Peter Smith, the principal investigator on the Mars ...

 AZ After years of preparation, and with people around the world cheering it on, the UA Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Mars on May 25, 2008. Its mission was to look for signs of life on mars - a mission accomplished with the discovery of ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander surpassed its original three-month mission, lasting five months after landing in the Martian northern plains on May 25, 2008. Phoenix returned more than 30000 images. It took 29799 images that provided panoramic views of the ...

 TX By News Editor • on May 7, 2009 About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for ...

Discovery-News.com: Mars time and Earth time are so similar, scientists working on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission are in a constant state of jet ... current.com

By News Editor • on May 7, 2009 The team that developed and operated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission will receive the 2009 John L. “Jack” Swigert Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation. During five months of operations at a Martian ...

Tucson, AZ) -- Phoenix Mars Lander chief Peter Smith believes man will step foot on Mars. Smith is the University of Arizona's principal investigator for the Mars Lander mission. Speaking to a capacity crowd at the school's Flandrau Science Center, ...

This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions -- MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft -- and the USAF Global Positioning System ...

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The Phoenix Mars Lander mission has been a successful steppingstone to greater discoveries on our neighboring planet, Peter Smith said Tuesday night. Smith, the principal investigator for the University of Arizona-led mission, told about 125 people ...

 Romania This means that a lander needs to be less intricate than, say, the Phoenix Mars Lander, with all its heat shields and parachutes to protect it from atmospheric reentry. Still, the minimal cost for a mission to Phobos was calculated at about 72 million ...

 UK This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions — MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft — and the USAF Global Positioning System (GPS) ...

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PR Newswire (press release), NY This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions -- MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft -- and the USAF Global Positioning System ...

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This June 2008 NASA photos show the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander carrying a scoop full of Martian soil. NASA has announced they will be extending the Phoenix mission until the end of September after the lander recently found evidence of ...

By Aaron Mackey The head of the UA-led Phoenix Mars mission will discuss some of the results from last summer's journey to the red planet during an informal discussion tonight. The talk, "Journey of the Phoenix: What did we find on Mars? ...

 AZ The Phoenix Mars Lander mission led by the University of Arizona tasted frozen water in material scooped from the planet's northern arctic region. And other discoveries since the Lander's surface operations ended six months ago have expanded ...

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The orbiter is capable of taking pictures at a resolution that is similar to that of the best Earth-observing satellites in our planet's orbit. This wonderful achievement was completed in 2008 by the successful deployment of the Phoenix Mars Lander, ...

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While he spoke, a screen behind Smith displayed photos taken by the Phoenix Mars Lander during its mission, which was one of the first to show clear evidence that frozen water existed on the Red Planet. The Lander was a collaboration between University ...

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 DE AGS President Jerome Dobson introduced Peter Smith, University of Arizona professor and principal investigator of NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission, as “one who helps explore a distant planet and gives us front-row seats.” The Phoenix Mars Lander, ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. 9/2008 Reuters fr.truveo.com

By Andrea Thompson June 10, 2008: This image shows NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s solar panel and the lander’s Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop. June 10, 2008: This image shows NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s solar panel and the lander’s Robotic Arm ...

 AZ The science cafe event scheduled for May 5 - the final before a summer hiatus - will feature Peter Smith, principal investigator of the UA-led Phoenix Mars Lander mission, said Sam Kane, Flandrau's associate director for marketing. ...

During the Phoenix mission, Hoffman lived on Mars time, where the day, or sol is 40 minutes longer than our 24-hour day on earth. Keeping up with the Phoenix Mars Lander meant working when the lander’s solar cells were exposed to sunlight—hence working ...

This animated camera view zooms in from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander launch site all the way to Phoenix's Microscopy and Electrochemistry and ... www.redorbit.com

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor According to the latest researches coming in from NASA, the Phoenix Mars Lander may have descended right in the middle of a terrain that is extremely microbe-friendly. The most recent investigations seem to hint at the ...

But it appears NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander may have helped scientists figure out which parts of the planet are more habitable for humans than others. Recent (and controversial) evidence that certain portions of the Mars landscape could host liquid water ...

 AZ Efforts to use HiRISE to photograph the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft, now resting inactive on the planet's northern arctic region following a five-month surface research mission, have been unsuccessful, she said. Researchers had hoped to see how the ...

The idea came as a result of the analysis of the first concrete pieces of scientific data that the Phoenix Mars Lander sent back to Earth, after it landed on the Red Planet, on May 25th, 2008. The robotic probe uncovered that the Martian soil was host ...

The Phoenix has about 3 months to dig on the surface of Mars analyze samples before it freezes and becomes inoperable during the Martian winter ... it.truveo.com

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging ... it.truveo.com

Other notable Delta II launches include critical NASA missions such as the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO and Deep Impact, as well as the USAF Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR fleet ...

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NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, along with the Phoenix Mars Lander, were launched by Delta II. Additionally, NASA missions such as Mars Odyssey, Messenger, Dawn, GLAST, and THEMIS all began their journeys on a Delta II. ...

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 NY This should help stave off some of the sampling problems experienced last year by the Phoenix Mars lander, which had difficulty getting samples into its testing ovens. "Having more time to do both of those things is going to be a big science benefit," ...

 MA “That exposure to language is absolutely critical to students,” she said. Girotti was appointed to the School Committee last March. Sam Kounaves stepped down from the position in order to focus on his work with NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander Mission.

 NY Liquid water on the leg of the Phoenix lander? Have they ruled out the possibility that it was from the Mars Rover? It turned out that the Phoenix instrumentation had found quantities of a toxic chemical called perchlorate known to be a hindrance to ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY Other notable Delta II missions include critical NASA missions such as the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft, as well as the USAF ...

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 MA - Feb 13, 2009 She took over the seat vacated by Samuel Kounaves who resigned from his position to work on the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Mission. Kathleen Bodie who served ...

NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander ceased communications Nov. 2 after successfully returning unprecedented science data to Earth. Launched Aug. 4, 2007, Phoenix safely touched down on Mars on May 25, 2008, at a site farther north than where any previous ...

After all, it seems the Phoenix Mars lander succumbed to an arctic dust storm-induced drained battery, and Spirit was also hit by the solar panel's old foe, a dust storm in Gusev Crater. But the key point that needs to be remembered in ...

By Andru Edwards It would appear that the Phoenix has ceased to exist. NASA last heard from the Mars lander Nov. 2 and suspected that the decreasing sunshine was not sufficient for the solar arrays to charge. In all, the lander operated for about 5 months. The project’s team are still monitoring the craft in hop...

By Joshua Topolsky Anthropomorphized Mars lander in terminal "Groundhog Day" mode, tugging heartstrings (8 days ago - 45 Comments); SpaceX slated to transport cargo and crew on Falcon 9 (44 days ago - 19 Comments); Circuit City files for bankruptcy (4 ...

NASA Mard lander freezes to death NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has stopped sending signals back to Earth after five months. Scientists believe it has likely frozen to the robot equivalent of death. The lander’s demise was pretty much ...

By Laura June Dear Phoenix lander, you always find new ways to both delight and torture us. We listened anxiously for your updates about the weather on Mars, watched you "think" your way out of nearly fatal situations, and marveled at your liquid discoveries. It seems like only yesterday we were prepari...

Dying Mars lander to enter 'Groundhog Day' state New Scientist (subscription), UK - Nov 5, 2008 NASA's Phoenix lander will spend its last days on Mars in a 'Groundhog Day'-like state. The craft will perform the same sequence of tasks over and over ...

By Nancy Atkinson It appears the end is nigh for the Phoenix Mars Lander. Today, engineers have begun to shut down some of the lander's instruments and heaters. But this is in hopes of extending the mission by saving power as available sunlight begins to wane with the approach of Martian autumn. But at the [...]

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Mars has been the focus of much attention this year given the successes and challenges facing first, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and later the Phoenix Mars Lander. Add to that the three orbiting spacecraft, ...

By Ian O'Neill As the Phoenix Mars lander will agree, it's cold near Mars' North Pole. Phoenix is currently seeing the winter frost encroach on its location, bright patches of ice appearing on the rocks surrounding it. Another sure sign of winter at this high latitude is the loss of light; soon day will tur...

Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains in May on a three-month mission to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life. One of its biggest discoveries so far is confirming the presence of ice on the planet. NASA extended the three-month mission through the end of t...

The Phoenix Mars Mission may answer some ageold questions Is Mars suitable for life? And if its not now, was it ever? v Voyage of the Mars probe v Look inside the Mission s The Phoenix Mars Mission program