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Phoenix spaceprobe - Artist view

author: Nasa/JPL/Novapix

reference: e-son27-62500

Image Size 300 DPI: 44 * 36 cm

Th American Phoenix spacecraft has been launched on August 04 2007 and is scheduled to land on Mars' polar ice cap in May 2008.
Instruments aboard the Phoenix lander will be used to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars and to research the history of water there.

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - 2008 - ILLUSTRATION - MARS - MARS SCOUT - MARTIAN SURFACE - PHOENIX - PLANET - SOIL - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -