The Phoenix lander was set to dig into Mars' permafrost in search of signs of life. The delay was caused by a glitch in the orbiting Odyssey satellite.
NASA scientists said Thursday the agency was extending the Mars mission of its Phoenix lander until the end of September, describing its progress so far as "very successful."
(PhysOrg.com) -- New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having.
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains. The ...
... Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander' ... delivery to oven six is a 'bonus round' for Phoenix, as the mission goal requirement of filling and analysing ...
... a dwindling supply
The death watch is on for NASA's Phoenix lander, the first spacecraft to sample water on ...
Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE ...
... 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 monitoring of Phoenix.
... high-speed slew as MELACOM tracks Phoenix, rotating about one axis at a speed some two to three ... MELACOM data will enable NASA to confirm the Phoenix lander's descent characteristics, including speed ...
... polar region of Mars. The images from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander also provided a glimpse of the flat valley ... have water-rich permafrost within reach of the lander's robotic arm. The landing ends a 422- ...
NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and ... its elbow. Mission scientists are eager to move Phoenix's robotic arm, for that arm will deliver samples ...
... take more images of its landing site early today. The Phoenix lander sent back new sharp color ... scientists made a color mosaic of images taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on landing day, May ...
University of Michigan simulations correctly predicted that the pulsed jets of the Mars Phoenix lander would strip the soil to the subsurface ice or rock as the craft touched down.
