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Article: Phoenix Mars Lander discovers possible ice on Red Planet
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- The Hindustan Times
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- May 31, 2008
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Washington, May 31 -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, which touched down on the surface of the Red Planet on May 26, has discovered what might possibly be ice, that was exposed when soil was blown away.
The possible ice appears in an image that Phoenix's robotic arm camera took underneath the lander, near a footpad.
"We could very well be seeing rock, or we could be seeing exposed ice in the retrorocket blast zone," said Ray Arvidson of Washington University, co-investigator for the robotic arm.
According to Arvidson, "We'll test the two ideas by getting more data, including color data, from the robotic arm camera. We think ...