News | November 19, 2008

Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation Award

Phoenix's robotic arm — This photograph from June 2008, shows the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander carrying a scoop of Martian soil bound for the spacecraft's microscope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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The University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission.

For the full story, go to the University of Arizona release at http://uanews.org/node/22658.

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News | November 19, 2008

Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation Award

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