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Mission to Mars' north poloar region Phoenix Mars Lander
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  imageALT   'Snow White' Trench After Scraping
This view from the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the trench informally named "Snow White."
› Read More July 24, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Midnight Sun on Mars
This panorama mosaic of images was taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This mosaic documents the midnight sun during several days of the mission.
› Read More July 23, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Before & After Scraping on Sol 56
This animation combines two images of the trench informally named "Snow White" taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on July 21, 2008, during the lander's 56th Martian day, or sol, since landing.
› Read More July 22, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Doors Fully Open on Phoenix's Next Oven
The double doors on the right are wide open in this image of four pairs of oven doors on Phoenix's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA).
› Read More July 21, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Oh Canada!
This color mosaic image of the protective cover of the lidar onboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander was taken by the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) on Sol 35, or the 35th day of the mission, June 30, 2008.
› Read More July 17, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Rasped Soil Sample in Phoenix Scoop
This image, taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm Camera on Sol 50, the 50th day of the mission, July 15, 2008, shows material collected in the lander's scoop from the rasping activity on the Martian surface.
› Read More July 16, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Rasping in 'Snow White'
This image, taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 50, or the 50th day of the mission, July 15, 2008, shows two holes at the top created by the lander's Robotic Arm's motorized rasp tool.
› Read More July 16, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Rasp Tool on Phoenix Robotic Arm Model
This close-up photograph taken at the Payload Interoperability Testbed at the Univeristy of Arizona, Tucson, shows the motorized rasp protruding from the bottom of the scoop on the engineering model of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Robotic Arm Rasp
This photograph shows the rasp protruding from the back of the scoop on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm engineering model in the Payload Interoperability Testbed at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Robotic Arm Scoop with Rasp
This drawing shows a side view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's scoop with various tools for acquiring soil, icy soil and ice samples.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Testing the Robotic Arm Rasp on Earth
Members of NASA Phoenix Mars Mission's Robotic Arm engineering team test the arm's motorized rasp in the Payload Interoperability Testbed at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Conductivity Probe
This image taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 49, or the 49th Martian day of the mission (July 14, 2008), shows thermal and electrical conductivity probe on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Scoop Inverted Showing Rasp
This image taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 49, or the 49th Martian day of the mission (July 14, 2008), shows the silver colored rasp protruding from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm scoop.
› Read More July 15, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Robotic Arm connects with 'Alice'
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm comes into contact with a rock informally named "Alice" near the "Snow White" trench.
› Read More July 14, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Preparatory Groundwork in 'Snow White' Trench
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is enlarging a trench informally named "Snow White" to prepare a cleaned-off area at the top of a subsurface layer of hard material, possibly ice-rich soil.
› Read More July 14, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Eyeing the Sky's Water Vapor
This image, and many like it, are one way NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is measuring trace amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere over far-northern Mars.
› Read More July 11, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix Conductivity Probe Inserted in Martian Soil
This image has been posted in connection with a Phoenix Mars Lander news briefing on May 27, 2008.
› Read More July 10, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Phoenix's Fork at the End of its Arm
This image taken by the Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the lander's Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe (TECP) near the Martian surface on Sol 43, the 43rd Martian day after landing (July 8, 2008).
› Read More July 10, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   First Atomic Force Microscope Image from Mars
This calibration image presents three-dimensional data from the atomic force microscope on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, showing surface details of a substrate on the microscope station's sample wheel.
› Read More July 10, 2008
       
       
  imageALT   Digging in "Snow White" trench
This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 44th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 43 (July 7, 2008), after the May 25, 2008, landing, showing the current sample scraping area in the trench informally called "Snow White."
› Read More July 8, 2008
       
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