Phoenix Negotiates Breathtaking Entry And Descent, Lands Safely On Mars In Frigid Northern Realm Spacecraft Has Just Months To Examine Water Ice, Key To Human Habitation On Mars; Search For Possible Life On Mars To Involve Shovels, Laboratories It worked. The Phoenix spacecraft, streaking at 12,500 miles an hour, blazed brightly through the orange sky above Mars, then deployed a high-strength parachute system, and finally used rocket thrusters to gently touch down in a frozen, forbidding landscape near the Martian…
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