30-July-2007, 04:42 PM
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Two articles from Florida Today:
Phoenix to taste Mars water
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After its launch, cruise through space and suspenseful descent, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will do what no other spacecraft has done: drink Martian water.
"We're going to be able to go and, if we're successful at doing it, actually be able to taste the water on another planet," said project manager Barry Goldstein of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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Entombment would be cool ending for lander
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If Phoenix Mars Lander survives its primary three-month mission and a whole lot of cold afterward, it may get to witness its own frigid death.
Eventually, the spacecraft will be encased in ice.
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