NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7. + Full image and caption(October 10)
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. + Read more(October 08)
If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would
like to see what's underneath. + Read more(September 22)