UC Davis Geology: International Year of Planet Earth

photo of mars phoenix lander traveling through the martian atmosphere
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander parachuting down to Mars.
Image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Calech/University of Arizona

May 25, 2006 - Nasa's Phoenix Mars Lander arrives on Mars.

Phoenix lands in Mar's arctic region. Using a robotic arm, Phoenix will dig into the soil to study the soil, water and ice. The two objectives of the Phoenix Mission:

study the history of water in the Martian arctic and
search for evidence of a habitable zone and assess the biological potential of the ice-soil boundary.

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