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- Title
Phoenix fades away.
- Authors
Hand, Eric
- Abstract
The article provides updates on Phoenix, the spacecraft of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which was launched in August 2007 and which started scraping at subsurface ice in the martian arctic since May 2008. As of the last months of 2008, the spacecraft has missed chances of communicating with satellites passing overhead. Among the achievements of the lander are the discovery of a strong signal for calcium carbonate, a signal of a different type of soil carbonate and the possible existence of an organic molecule.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SPACE vehicles; MARTIAN exploration; MARS probes; UNITED States. National Aeronautics &; Space Administration; CALCIUM carbonate; CARBONATES in soils; SPACE exploration; UNDERGROUND areas
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 456, Issue 7218, p8
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/456008a