On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander blazed through the Martian atmosphere and landed at the northern pole of the Red Planet. The spacecraft made history as its robotic arm was the first to ...

GOLDEN, Colorado - NASA's next mission to Mars--the Phoenix lander--is undergoingreadiness testing in preparation for an early August launch window. Forthe first time since NASA's Viking missions ...

Prospecting near Mars’ north pole was set back at least a day Tuesday when a communications link to NASA’s Phoenix lander, nestled into a wide, undulating expanse nicknamed Green Valley, was ...

Space.com: NASA’s Phoenix lander will head for northern Mars in 2007, not only ready to dig for subsurface water ice but also set to look for habitats of present-day life.

Over the next few months, NASA scientists will begin to analyze information gathered by the Phoenix Mars Lander, whose mission ended earlier this week after repeated unsuccessful attempts to ...

The landing thrusters aboard the Phoenix Mars Lander apparently did their job and them some. First, they successfully fired and gently deposited the multimillion dollar probe on the surface of the ...

It's official: NASA has declared its Phoenix Mars Lander, which fell silent in November 2008, officially broken. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

Phoenix, apparently damaged by ice buildups during harsh Martian winter, has not phoned home during fly-overs, ending hopes for additional science with the lander. Bill Harwood has been covering ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander should soon be providing new data on water and climate, now that it has survived the harrowing descent to the Red Planet. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET ...

May 20, 2008 After a nearly 10-month journey, the Phoenix lander will touch down on Mars May 25. Confirmation of the landing could come as early as 7:53 P.M. EST. The descent and landing will be a ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander, now only nine days into its breakthrough mission, is already causing scientists to buzz about what it has found. Images taken by Phoenix and relayed back to Earth show ...