NASA Sends Spacecraft to Mars
August 7th, 2007 by admin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, August 6, 2007 (ENS) - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for the Red Planet’s polar region. Designed to be the first mission to touch Martian water-ice, the spacecraft is equipped to dig up and analyze icy soil that lies just beneath the Martian surface.
Poised atop a Delta II rocket, the spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at 5:26 am EDT into the sky above Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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