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Article: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 25, 2008
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Dwayne Brown , Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-
1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Guy Webster, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-6278,
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov, both of NASA; or Sara Hammond of
University of Arizona, Tucson, +1-520-626-1974,
shammond@lpl.arizona.edu
TUCSON, Ariz., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Phoenix
Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet
chemistry laboratory today for the first time. Results from that
instrument, part of Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and
Conductivity Analyzer, are expected to provide the first measurement
of the acidity or alkalinity of the ...