New Details Emerge from Mars Lander Digging

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Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · Science & Technology

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The U.S. space agency's Phoenix Mars Lander is sending back detailed pictures of the red planet's surface.  Instruments aboard the NASA spacecraft are in the process of analyzing Martian soil.  Mission scientists say a computer glitch caused the loss of about one day's worth of scientific data.  And they say they might have found what they were hoping to find on the red planet, ice. VOA's Paul Sisco reports.

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