Spacecraft reveals look at Mars' polar region
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 02:28
in Astronomy & Space
(AP) -- NASA's newest outpost in the solar system is a polygon-cracked terrain in Mars' northern polar region believed to hold a reservoir of ice beneath. Hours after the Phoenix Mars Lander softly landed Sunday in the Martian arctic plains, it dazzled scientists with the first-ever glimpse of the Red Planet's high northern latitudes.
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