NASA's Phoenix touches Martian soil with fork-like probe to find water
Washington, July 11 (ANI): NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time, which could provide information about frozen or unfrozen water in the soil.
Phoenix's robotic arm pushed the fork-like probe's four spikes into undisturbed soil on July 8, as a validation test of the insertion procedure.
The prongs of this thermal and electrical conductivity probe are about 1.5 centimeters, or half an inch, long.
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