Mars landing
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 26, 2008
NASA'S Phoenix spacecraft has successfully landed near Mars' north pole for a 90-day digging mission.
Mission control at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated after the Phoenix Mars Lander signalled back it had survived today's fiery entry.
Phoenix will be the first spacecraft to study the Martian arctic plains. Unlike Nasa's mobile twin rovers, the lander will stay in one spot.
It will use its robotic arm to dig into the permafrost to determine if the polar environment has the ingredients needed for life to emerge.
"In my dreams it couldn't have gone as perfectly as it went," project manager Barry Goldstein said. "It went right down the middle."
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