Phoenix Mars Lander: Entry Descent Landing

Mars is a cold desert planet with no liquid water on its surface. But in the Martian arctic, water ice lurks just below ground level. Discoveries made by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter in 2002 show large amounts of subsurface water ice in the northern arctic plain. The Phoenix lander targets this circumpolar region using a robotic arm to dig through the protective top soil layer to the water ice below and ultimately, to bring both soil and water ice to the lander platform for sophisticated analysis.

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[Lend2011]

@sjonsigurson I propose that: the first way of life found in Mars must be called "NASA trickus" or "Nasa mistakeus"...what do Chineses and Russians think about my idea?. Space exploration is only another religion; it's the highest way of psychiatry. There is a lot of healers around us, Cannot NASA sets position about?

[sjonsigurson]

it's a Tuesday on mars !

[cadabraa]

"But in the Martian arctic, water ice lurks just below ground level."

Not quite true as there's ice everywhere under the surface of Mars. Also, it's only a little bit of cork that's in the fabric of the heat shield, it's mostly high-tech ceramics.