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The Phoenix lander mission to the Red Planet arrived in the northern regions of Mars in 2008, and immediately started conducting its studies, which were aimed at discovering water-ice beneath the surface. It didn't take long for it to discover the stuff, as, during landing, its “feet” dug into ice on... |
18 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was a NASA mission that launched to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007, aboard the Delta II 7925 vehicle. It consisted of a robotic station that was to conduct scientific experiments on Mars, and study surface chemistry, weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and the landscape too. Originally... |
5 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Whenever people think of the Red Planet, what usually jumps to mind are the arid, barren and sandy landscapes that have been widely circulated over the years in NASA images. But the reality of the Martian surface is a bit different than widely believed, a fact that was evidenced by the last readings sent back by the ... |
3 July 2009
06:38 GMT |
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A growing number of space experts believe that they may have been going about finding life on Mars the wrong way. They argue that landers such as the twin Vikings and the Phoenix Mars Lander may have unwillingly destroyed the very chemicals they were looking for in the Martian soil, by heating them up in their intern... |
25 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Phoenix International Systems has announced today the introduction of a new storage solution, specifically tailored to meet the performance requirements of the military, aerospace and industrial applications. The company's new solution comes as a VME data storage plug-in blade, based on the new VS1-250-SSD Seria... |
21 May 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Professor Peter Smith is the University of Arizona expert who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission, which landed on the Red Planet on May 25th, 2008. Speaking at the University of Delaware on April 16th, his lecture, Journey of the Phoenix, captivated the audience with its contents, as well as with the idea that the ... |
22 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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According to the latest researches coming in from NASA, the Phoenix Mars Lander may have descended right in the middle of a terrain that is extremely microbe-friendly. The most recent investigations seem to hint at the fact that the entire region, just below the planet's North Pole, is or was able to sustain lif... |
31 March 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held in Woodlands, Texas, saw an increased interest in the planet Mars, with a team of researchers even proposing that our neighbor might have small briny lakes under the surface, where higher temperatures allowed water to liquefy. The idea came as a result of t... |
25 March 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Experts from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander team have announced recently that they may have just discovered the first evidence of liquid water on the Red Planet. According to pictures sent back by the spacecraft, one of the machine's legs is covered with what appear to be tiny droplets of liquid. Over the weeks... |
18 February 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Philips unveiled new versions of its widely popular mobile phone Philips Xenium 9 @ 9q, as a special offering for the holiday season. The newly-announced models are called Dragon and Phoenix, and the exquisite drawings featured by the shell are rather meant to turn the device into a stylish accessory.In addition, the... |
29 December 2008
14:07 GMT |
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Now that the Phoenix Mars Lander is defunct and the mission is officially over beyond all hope, scientists have been able to focus on the data that the device has collected and relayed to us. The main source of interest is represented by the water found in the region of the landing site, but a series of examinations ... |
16 December 2008
08:31 GMT |
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It seems that people knew from the very beginning that the doors of the Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) instruments were flawed from the design phase. This gave scientists a lot of headaches during the extended mission and, if they had been designed correctly in the first place, per... |
15 December 2008
09:44 GMT |
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You must be thinking that the poor lander has been pronounced dead several times now and you're right to some extent. The difference is that, this time, it's for good. Although hopes for any sign of communication with the brave lander were extremely low, NASA technicians still made a few more attempts to li... |
2 December 2008
04:53 GMT |
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It seems that for the Phoenix Lander, the spacecraft many have come to be attached to, the end is indeed nigh. Technicians lost contact with the craft on November 2nd, but hoped to be able to resume communication with the lander. But it appears that this is no longer possible, since the Sun does not provide enough en... |
11 November 2008
11:04 GMT |
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One week ago, the Robotic Arm of the Phoenix Lander gathered and stored the 6th sample of Martian soil. Originally, the mission coordinators estimated that only 3 would be collected. But, as the mission has surpassed even the boldest of predictions since its May 25 landing on Mars (for 3 months, as it was scheduled)... |
21 October 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Following the resounding success of the Mars Phoenix Lander's mission, its three main project leaders were invited to New York's Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough conference in order to shed more light on the gathered data and on what future similar missions may expect to discover.The mission of NASA... |
17 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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More than two months after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, the pile of circumstantial evidence pointing towards the presence of water was put aside and replaced with the first clear analysis showing that water indeed exists on Mars. In a report published yeste... |
1 August 2008
02:51 GMT |
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After nearly a week of scraping soil and icy material off the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander collected a sample and attempted to deliver it to the TEGA instrument. However, little soil of the total of 3 cubic centimeters of material it had gathered made it to the analyzer, images showing t... |
28 July 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Mission controllers kept NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in full operational mode during the Martian night on Monday in order to coordinate it with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to make detailed observations in the atmosphere of the Red Planet. The lander monitored changes in the lower atmosphere with the help of i... |
23 July 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Laboratory tests carried out on Earth showed that the Phoenix Mars Lander needs to expose more of the ice bellow the dusty layer on the surface of the planet if researchers want to collect a proper sample for analysis. As a result, the robotic arm of the spacecraft was instructed on Monday to extend an already dug up... |
16 July 2008
04:36 GMT |
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NASA confirmed that the robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered its second sample for analysis to the wet chemistry laboratory of the spacecraft. While the first sample test of the lander failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to the appearance and evolution of life as we know it on the Red Pla... |
8 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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The first investigation of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Martian soil collected from its surroundings failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to life at all, and although another seven single-use test ovens are expecting further analysis, the next experiment could just as well be the last one for the sp... |
3 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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After another couple of days of delay related to the unsuccessful attempt to deliver soil samples to the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, NASA reported that the Phoenix Mars Lander was again back on schedule and pursuing the primary tasks of its mission. In a press conference yesterday, mission controllers said that... |
11 June 2008
02:45 GMT |
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The mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander seems to have hit a snag last week after soil samples delivered by the robotic arm of the spacecraft failed to pass through the screen of the test oven of the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument. The TEGA instrument is equipped with seven other such ovens, which could po... |
10 June 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA for short, on board the Phoenix Mars Lander, failed to pass its first sample test after the Martian soil delivered by the robotic arm of the lander was unable to reach the instrument. Mission controllers said on Saturday that they would try to determine what we... |
9 June 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Since most of us will probably never fly into space, NASA will provide you with the next best thing. A chance to send your name into space and have it spinning around that big chunk of rock orbiting Earth, we call the Moon. Until June 27, 2008 anyone willing to subscribe in the 'Name to the Moon' program ca... |
6 June 2008
05:06 GMT |
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This is the highest resolution image ever sent back to Earth by the Phoenix Mars Lander featuring dust and sand particles. The image was captured by the camera of the optical microscope instrument on board the spacecraft and shows particles of dust as small as one-tenth of the diameter of the human hair. The mission ... |
6 June 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The mission controllers of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided to delay the beginning of the digging operations for a day in order to better learn how to scoop samples of soil from the Martian surface. The lander was scheduled to start gathering soil sample for analysis today, but they decided that Phoenix must f... |
4 June 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Phoenix Mars Lander, designed to carry NASA's 420 million US dollar three month mission to the Red Planet, which touched down on the surface just a little over a week ago, made its first dig test in the Martian soil on Sunday with the 2.4 meter long robotic arm, revealing bright white bits of material that could... |
3 June 2008
05:57 GMT |
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On Saturday, NASA and University of Arizona mission controllers revealed an image taken with the camera on Phoenix's robotic arm showing a white patch of soil under the lander, which the team members believe to be water ice. The patch is about one meter in diameter, seems to be bright white and is surrounded by ... |
2 June 2008
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The robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander was used yesterday along with the camera attached to it to view the ground beneath the spacecraft and make certain that the soil is clear of any big rocks. The arm has also touched the ground of the landing area for the first time while one of the instruments carried on boar... |
31 May 2008
03:51 GMT |
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After restoring communication with the Phoenix Mars Lander through the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, mission control resumed the preparation of the spacecraft for its scheduled digging mission, destined to establish whether or not Mars was ever hospitable for life. During its forth day on the surface of the Red Planet, Ph... |
30 May 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Communications with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, relaying data from the Phoenix Mars Lander to Earth, were restored after a slight glitch that delayed the mission of the lander for one day. Thus, on Wednesday mission controllers gave Phoenix the 'go ahead' to unfold the 2.4 meter long robotic arm it wil... |
29 May 2008
03:01 GMT |
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It seems that NASA has hit the jackpot with the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Red Planet and is planning to make the best of it. After it revealed on Monday that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to photograph the spacecraft while descending to the surface, NASA has now released an image... |
28 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Amongst some of the first images sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander in the outcome of its landing on the surface of Mars on the evening of last Sunday lies this particular one, showing the now famous polygon patterns characteristic to the north polar plains of the Red Planet. In a previous article I wrote that NASA... |
27 May 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander has now more than 24 hours on the Red Planet and it is still undergoing preparations for expected digging missions, which it will need to complete in the following months. As soon as it set foot on Martian soil, Phoenix went right to work and in approximately two hours after the landing it sen... |
27 May 2008
03:32 GMT |
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On the evening of May 25, the Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the northern regions of the Red Planet. As it descended to the surface of Mars, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - monitoring the progress of the Phoenix spacecraft - captured ... |
27 May 2008
02:46 GMT |
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On Sunday 16:53 PDT, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander assisted by a series of spacecrafts in the orbit of the Red Planet successfully touched down on the surface and has since transmitted a series of pictures of the north polar plains, which it will be investigating in the months to come. Initial measurements show tha... |
26 May 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Phoenix's nine month journey to the Red Planet is set to end tomorrow, May 25, with its landing in the north polar regions of Mars. Whether or not it manages to land remains uncertain until the spacecraft is safely on the ground, especially considering the relatively long list of failed missions to the Red Plane... |
24 May 2008
04:05 GMT |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is expected to touchdown on the Red Planet on May 25 in a north polar region known as "Green Valley". In anticipation for the event, NASA has been using its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to make periodical observations of the designated landing spot and on April 20, the MRO spotted two d... |
8 May 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Fujitsu's upcoming generation of hard disk drives will come with remote control capabilities as well as with an extra layer of data protection. The announcement was broken today by Phoenix Technologies and Fujitsu Electronics in a joint press release.According to the report, the upcoming 2.5" 7,200RPM SATA hard ... |
6 May 2008
07:00 GMT |
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In anticipation of the expected landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on 25 May, NASA engineers applied a trajectory correction to the flight path. Further modifications to the flight path are expected after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs the designated landing area. The Phoenix spacecraft will most likely ... |
11 April 2008
10:59 GMT |
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It's whatever you want to call it, but most important it's an opportunity to get to know better what it feels like guarding LeBron James, or how it feels like catching a no look pass from Steve Nash, trying to block Shaquille O'Neal or hitting the winning buzzer beater in a playoffs game. The Phoenix S... |
14 December 2007
04:15 GMT |
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Culpa Innata is one of the most challenging and beautiful games ever created, published by Strategy First (a subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings) and developed by Momentum AS. Culpa Innata falls under the category of 3D adventure games, backed up by a storyline sure to catch the attention of even the fiercest non-gamer... |
25 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is ready to launch and agency officials presented August 3 as the earliest possible launch date, despite a hardware glitch that caused one of its cameras to malfunction and the massive Mars storm that is currently affecting the other two probes on the surface, Mars Spirit and Opportun... |
10 July 2007
03:18 GMT |
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The next robotic probe scheduled to land on Mars is the Phoenix Mars Lander, a new rover built for the purpose of touching and analyzing Martian water for the first time. Right now it is being prepared for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.But before the actual launch, scientists are concerned th... |
15 June 2007
05:11 GMT |
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"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10"This verse announced the birth/release of Netscape Navigator. The verse numbe... |
11 May 2007
11:06 GMT |
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The Phoenix, a fabulous mythical bird the size of an eagle, symbolizes rebirth in many ancient cultures. According to the ancient Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, nearby a coolwell and sings a beautiful morning song. The phoenix lives 500 years or longer with only one phoenix existing at a time. When the bird'... |
16 April 2007
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