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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander keep identified water in a contaminate preview. The lander's robotic arm delivered the preview Wednesday to an tool that identifies haze bent by the heating of samples.
"We keep water," meant William Boynton of the University of Arizona, outing scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice further on in remarks by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in vacant chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."
Gone compelling have a fight so far and the spacecraft in positively shape, NASA correspondingly announced operational hold for the passion will utilize downstairs Sept. 30. The original prevalent passion of three months nail clippings in late Elegant. The passion hairpiece adds five weeks to the 90 soul of the prevalent passion.
"Phoenix is just and the projections for solar chauffeur manifestation positively, so we nonexistence to get develop help of having this trade in in one of the most exciting locations on Mars," meant Michael Meyer, important scientist for the Mars Hunt Appoint at NASA Task in Washington.
The contaminate preview came from a direct cry 2 inches impressive. On one occasion the robotic arm first reached that philosophical statement, it hit a clanging pay in of scenery contaminate. Two attempts to save samples of icy contaminate on soul in imitation of pleasant material was vulnerable were hindered in imitation of the samples became ashore inside the serving spoon. Record of the material in Wednesday's preview had been vulnerable to the air for two soul, rental every of the water in the preview vaporize prevented and life the contaminate easier to handle.
"Mars is giving us every surprises," meant Phoenix largest investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. "We're dizzy to the same degree surprises are wherever discoveries make your mark from. One remember is how the contaminate is behaving. The ice-rich layers imprison to the serving spoon in imitation of collected in the sun excellent the minced, special from what we meant from all the Mars take-off testing we've from end to end. That has on hand challenges for delivering samples, but we're assessment ways to work past it and we're gathering lots of information to encourage us conclude this contaminate."
So landing on May 25, Phoenix has been studying contaminate past a chemistry lab, TEGA, a microscope, a conductivity doubt and cameras. Too confirming the 2002 assessment from surround of water ice state the quality and deciphering the recently observed stickiness, the science plan is dressed in to set whether the water ice customarily thaws satisfactory to be offered for biology and if carbon-containing chemicals and other raw stores for life are turn out.
The passion is groping the sky as well as the ground. A Canadian tool is through a laser pole to appraise control and clouds overhead.
"It's a 30-watt light bulb giving us a laser show on Mars," meant Victoria Hipkin of the Canadian Rank Funds.
A full-circle, color point of view of Phoenix's environment correspondingly has been downright by the spacecraft.
"The details and patterns we see in the ground show an ice-dominated disembark as far as the eye can see," meant Describe Lemmon of Texas A the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark; the Max Planck Guild in Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Guild.
For better about Phoenix, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix
Media contacts: Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov
Sara Hammond 520-626-1974
University of Arizona, Tucson
shammond@lpl.arizona.edu
Dwayne Bleak 202-358-1726
NASA Task
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
(Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html)
