Phoenix Scoop Ready for Sampling

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 15:21 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.

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