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Over the past decade, the agency has sent half a dozen or so probes to explore the planet. Two rovers are still sniffing around the surface, where they've already increased our understanding of Martian geology. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, meanwhile, has only just begun to send back breathtaking high-resolution images from space. And now comes yet another probe: the Phoenix mission, above, to be launched in August, will land in mid-2008 in the Martian arctic. Scientists already know there's ice under the surface. It will be Phoenix's job to dig down, find it and try to figure out whether the Martian subsurface was ever—or may even still be—hospitable to some form of life.
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Thought I would start this thread, as the launch date is fast approaching on: Thursday 9th August 2007.
Andrew Brown.
"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.http://www.launchphotography.com/
http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/this ... anijournal
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Thought I would start this thread, as the launch date is fast approaching on: Thursday 9th August 2007.
Andrew Brown.
"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.http://www.launchphotography.com/
http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/this ... anijournal