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Published online 27 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.857
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Phoenix set for three-month dig on Mars
NASA scientists hope for first taste of martian ice after soft landing for craft near Mars's north pole.
After a dramatic deceleration through Mars's thin atmosphere that ended with a gentle landing in welcoming rock-free terrain, NASA's Phoenix mission now stands ready to go to work.
"Everything just worked like a charm," says Barry Goldstein, the mission's project manager at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, which ran mission control for the landing.
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