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Article: NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 4, 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
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists are
analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to
science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the
landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.
Within the last month, two samples have been analyzed by the Wet
Chemistry Lab of the spacecraft's Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and ...