Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers For Mars Project
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 11:28
in Astronomy & Space
About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.