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Mars exploration: Phoenix: a race against time

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Eric Hand reports on the short life and hard times of the little Mars lander that sort-of-could.

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See Editorial, page 675 See also Correspondence: Finding of unusual soil on Mars could stem from tools used

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Hand, E. Mars exploration: Phoenix: a race against time. Nature 456, 690–695 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456690a

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