Content Preview
Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here
Arm woes eyed but Mars Lander still set for big dig
May 26, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable.
The three-legged lander set down Sunday in relatively flat terrain covered by fissures outlining polygon shapes. The geometric cracks are likely...
newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.
-
Already
registered on
newsday.com?
log in -
Already a subscriber
to Newsday or
Optimum Online®?
get access -
Not a Newsday
or Optimum Online®
subscriber?
click here
