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A couple of quick updates of some recent activity in Astronomy (a larger update will happen in the next week or so when i've got time to edit the articles/reviews that have been submitted).
The Mars Pheonix Lander has safely landed on Mars - an amazing accomplishment after a 9-month journey to the red planet. The Pheonix Lander is not a rover like Spirit and Opportunity - it now stays where it landed (in the northern pole region), using digging tools to sample the martian soil and analyse it for water and carbon-compounds - hopefully revealing potential signs of current or past microbial life.
The Mars Pheonix Lander has safely landed on Mars - an amazing accomplishment after a 9-month journey to the red planet. The Pheonix Lander is not a rover like Spirit and Opportunity - it now stays where it landed (in the northern pole region), using digging tools to sample the martian soil and analyse it for water and carbon-compounds - hopefully revealing potential signs of current or past microbial life.
posted by Nebulator at
6/03/2008 08:32:00 PM
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