Phoenix confirms Martian water, mission extended
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 06:49
in Astronomy & Space
Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapours produced by the heating of samples. The famous dice-size crumbs of bright material vanishing from inside a trench, where they were photographed by the lander at the end of June, convinced scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporised after digging exposed it...
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