Beneath the Surface

Posted on 28 May 2008 by

Nancy Atkinson at Universe Today tells us why the Phoenix lander nailed the perfect landing spot in the search for subsurface water. Take a Martian arctic scene, add some water and you get a terrestrial Arctic landscape of permafrost.

The Phoenix digging arm got unpacked today.

This is getting good.

Meanwhile, MRO snapped this image of Phoenix on the ground:

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Todd and his family live in Ames, Iowa. He serves a Catholic parish of both Iowa State students and town residents.
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