NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 18:07
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.
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