Phoenix set for three-month dig on Mars

NASA scientists hope for first taste of martian ice after soft landing for craft near Mars's north pole.

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Eric Hand is blogging from the Phoenix science headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, on Nature's In the Field blog .

Hand, E. Phoenix set for three-month dig on Mars. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.857