Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole
Monday, May 19, 2008 - 14:07
in Astronomy & Space
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet's north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm is zeroing in on the unexplored arctic region where a reservoir of ice is believed to lie beneath the Martian surface....