Phoenix residents and local media were buzzing Tuesday about whether the city had experienced a close encounter of the first kind.
A trio of NASA and ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars are preparing for the 25 May arrival of NASA's Phoenix lander. ESA's Mars Express has already started adjusting its orbit to provide critical back-up ...
... past life. It will be no different later this month when the Phoenix Mars Lander touches down on the Red ... with extraterrestrial water.Powered by solar panels, Phoenix is set to take a three-month tour ...
PARIS, May 20 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency said its controllers have successfully made a slight course correction to adjust the Phoenix's flight patch toward Mars.
... and also archive data for NASA's Planetary Data System.
The four students are Phoenix Mission documentarians, responsible for recording all that is done on the mission and for informally naming ...
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars this evening with no further adjustments to its flight path.
Hours after the Phoenix Mars Lander softly landed in the Martian arctic plains, it dazzled scientists with the first-ever glimpse of the Red Planet's high northern latitudes.
... can see cracks in the troughs that make us think the ice is still modifying the surface," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "We see fresh cracks. ...
... 44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final ... confirmation of the landing and eagerly awaited further information from Phoenix later Sunday night.
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... closest Mars Express got to Phoenix was 1550 km.
As Mars Express flew away ... capabilities of Mars Express were focussed on tracking Phoenix with MELACOM. Unfortunately, the science observations carried ...
Phoenix used its robotic arm to image underneath itself, white one of its instruments short-circuited.
(AP) -- A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site during the night and changed its lead news story.
On Sunday, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on Phoenix will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis ...
Phoenix uses microscope to peer at soil particles; exposes more white material.
This color-coded elevation map shows the "Dodo-Goldilocks" trench dug by the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.
