It hasn’t even been a week and already NASA’s Phoenix lander has taken some interesting pictures of Mar’s surface and discovered a lump of ice or a Martian rock on the surface. Now NASA has ordered the Phoenix to dig up the dirt around it and analyze the material.
The Phoenix Mars Lander from NASA is making its towards the surface of Mars and is scheduled to land in less than two weeks. During landing the probe will try to avoid the crash landing that its predecessor – the Mars Polar Lander – experienced.
“This is not a trip to grandma’s house,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “Putting a spacecraft safely on Mars is hard and risky.”