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Article: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander abandons underground salt search
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 10, 2008
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London, Sept. 10 -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has abandoned its underground salt search, as soil from the Lander's deepest trench has failed to fall into its wet chemistry laboratory, and mission managers are abandoning any further attempts to study the soil - at least for now.
According to a report in New Scientist, the soil comes from a trench called 'Stone Soup', which reaches some 18 centimeters below the surface - much deeper than any other trench the lander has dug.
Stone Soup sits between two polygons, raised hillocks that are similar to permafrost features on Earth.
If liquid water was once present at the ...