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Alone No More
Martian Meteorite ALH84001 Harbinger of Extraterrestrial Life
Check out Bob's Martian Touchdown - A Rockhound's Cosmic Encounter with Three Extraterrestrials

Phoenix Mars Lander Touchdown!

The Mars Phoenix spacecraft has successfully landed on Mars farther north than any previous mission at 68 degrees north latitude, equivalent to that of northern Alaska, where water is believed to exist in the form of ice just below the Martian surface.

Phoenix is equipped with some of the most sophisticated and advanced technology ever sent to Mars. The complement of the Phoenix spacecraft and its scientific instruments are ideally suited to uncover clues to the geologic history and biological potential of the Martian arctic.

During the course of its three-month mission, a robust robotic arm will dig through the soil to the water ice layer underneath and deliver soil and ice samples to the mission's experiments. On the deck, miniature ovens and a mass spectrometer will provide chemical analysis of trace matter. A chemistry lab-in-a-box will characterize the soil and ice chemistry.

Sophisticated maging systems will provide an unprecedented view of Mars spanning 12 powers of 10 in scale. A meteorological station will record the daily weather of the Martian northern plains using temperature and pressure sensors and will play an important role by providing information on the current state of the polar atmosphere and how water is cycled between the solid and gas phases in the Martian arctic.

Phoenix touchdown on Mars at 7:53 p.m. Eastern Time, May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis

The Mars Phoenix Mission
The Robotic Arm
The Robotic Arm Camera
The Mars Descent Imager
The Meteorological Station
The Surface Stereo Imager
The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer
The "Lab-in-a-Box"
Mars 101
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Water on Mars
Mars Map of Water Features
The Phoenix Classroom
The Phoenix Mars Lander Screen Saver
The Planetary Society Phoenix DVD

Dec 05, 2008:  Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle Phase
Dec 01, 2008:  NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
Nov 10, 2008:  Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet
Nov 03, 2008:  NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander
Oct 29, 2008:  Low Power Fault Trips Phoenix Lander Safe Mode
Oct 28, 2008:  Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
Oct 21, 2008:  Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs
Oct 17, 2008:  Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil Sample
Oct 15, 2008:  Phoenix Braves Dust and Winds
Oct 14, 2008:  Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
Oct 10, 2008:  Phoenix Digs Mars
Oct 08, 2008:  Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
Sep 29, 2008:  Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past
Sep 23, 2008:  Rock Moved by Mars Lander Arm
Sep 22, 2008:  Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock
Sep 16, 2008:  More Soil Delivered to Phoenix Lab
Sep 11, 2008:  Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action
Sep 09, 2008:  Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells
Sep 08, 2008:  Phoenix Monitors Frosty Clumps on its Struts
Sep 04, 2008:  Spiky Probe on Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary
Sep 01, 2008:  Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample
Aug 29, 2008:  Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars
Aug 25, 2008:  Phoenix Lander Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End

Phoenix Mars Lander in the News
Phoenix Has Gone Silent: In search of habitable soil, the Mars lander has lost power with no real chance of recovery.
Phoenix Mars Lander Stops Communicating: After five busy months, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has tasted its last morsel of Martian soil and viewed its last Martian landscape.
NASA Says Perchlorate Does Not Rule Out Life On Mars: The discovery of an unexpected chemical in Martian soil - one that is considered hazardous here on Earth - says little by itself about the possibility of life on Mars.
Surprising Signal: Martian soil shows traces of perchlorate, an unexpected chlorine compound.
NASA Quashes Rumors Of Life On Mars: The fuss started with a relatively restrained news story posted on SpaceRef.com headlined "White House Briefed On Potential For Mars Life."
Officially Ice: Oven bakes out water - Phoenix mission successes lead to longer lander life.
Tasting Ice: Phoenix Mars Lander ready to analyze ice if the oven bakes the sample without short-circuiting.
Pay Dirt: Martian Soil Fit For Earthly Life: Martian soil around the Phoenix lander is slightly alkaline and has enough different minerals that it could support Earth plants and more to the point - microbes - beneath the Martian surface
Mars OK For Life, So Far: "You could grow asparagus".
Martian Soil Hints At Water, Nutrients: The first analysis of Red Planet dirt by the Phoenix lander shows what may be some of the requirements for life.
Our Eyes On Mars: How The Phoenix Lander Sees: If you leave your camera at home on a long vacation, you can buy a disposable one. But that's not an option if you have traveled 422 million miles to another planet.
Phoenix Touches Martian Ice: NASA's "follow the water" approach to finding life - or evidence of past life - on Mars has finally hit pay dirt.
Ice On Mars : The Red Planet's white stuff is ice after all.
Phoenix Finds Ice On Mars: The Mars Phoenix Lander has found ice on the surface of the red planet, a key discovery for the spacecraft as it searches for water and signs of life.
Disappearing Bright Specks Show Mars Has Ice: Bright crumbs that were visible in one of the trenches dug by the Phoenix Mars Lander are no longer there - leaving mission scientists with only one conclusion: the material was ice that vaporized directly from the solid form in the dry, frigid Martian polar atmosphere.
Phoenix Probes Martian Soil: The first soil sample baked in the Phoenix Mars Lander shows no signs of water.
Phoenix Makes First Trench In Science Preserve: The Phoenix Mars Lander has begun digging in an area called "Wonderland", taking its first scoop of soil from a polygonal surface feature within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving for science.
The Phoenix mission is intended to last 90 days. It may last a little longer, but not much. When the sun drops below the horizon during the Martian winter, there will be no way to recharge the lander's batteries. Once they drain completely, the mission is over.

Powerful new twin NASA Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have successfully landed and deployed on different regions of the Red Planet. With far greater mobility than the 1997 Pathfinder rover, these robotic explorers may trek as much as 40 meters across the surface in a day. Each rover carries a sophisticated set of instruments search for evidence about whether past environments at selected sites were wet enough to be hospitable to life. Rocks and soils will be analyzed with a set of five geology instruments on each rover, and a special tool called the rock abrasion tool, or "RAT", will be used to expose fresh rock surfaces for study.
The Mars Exploration Rovers Mission
Mars Rover Fact Sheet
Mars Rovers Take Baby Steps
The Athena Mars Rovers Science Payload
The Geological History of Mars
The Surface of Mars
The Search for Extinct Life
The Search for Extant Life
Mars Landing Site Catalog
Mars High Resolution Global Mosaic
Mars Image Navigator
The Interior of Mars
Panorama of the 'Payson' outcrop on the western edge of Erebus Crater imaged by the Opportunity rover 02-26-2006
Opportunity Rover Mission Updates:
Nov 19, 2008:  Opportunity Prepares for Two Weeks of Independent Study
Nov 12, 2008:  Science Instrument Gets A Shaking
Nov 05, 2008:  Opportunity Cleans the Chalkboard
Oct 29, 2008:  Putting the Pedal to the Metal
Oct 21, 2008:  Farewell, Victoria, and on to Endeavour!
Oct 14, 2008:  Shake, Rattle, and Ready to Roll
Oct 07, 2008:  Preparing for the Road Trip of a Lifetime
Oct 02, 2008:  Opportunity Takes a Victory Lap
Sep 24, 2008:  Road Trip Gets Under Way
Sep 18, 2008:  Slipping Like a Dune Buggy
Sep 11, 2008:  Playing in the Sand
Sep 03, 2008:  Farewell, "Victoria"!
Spirit Rover Mission Updates:
Nov 20, 2008:  Serious but Stable
Nov 13, 2008:  On a Dusty Planet, Spirit Perseveres
Nov 06, 2008:  Still Trying to Drive Uphill
Oct 29, 2008:  Spirit Begins Driving Uphill
Oct 22, 2008:  Mars Rover Gets Ready to Move
Oct 15, 2008:  Getting Ready to Make the Next Move
Oct 08, 2008:  Spirit's Memory Is Getting Full
Oct 03, 2008:  Spirit and Earth Stick Together
Sep 27, 2008:  Spirit Upgrades Calling Plan
Sep 20, 2008:  Warming Up on Mars
Sep 11, 2008:  Light Duty for Now
Sep 05, 2008:  Spirit Continues Work on Winter Panorama
Stack of sedimentary structures exposed at Payson Ledge on the western edge of Erebus Crater imaged by the Opportunity rover 03-03-26 Bolders of vesicular basalt along the edge of a lava flow at Lorre Ridge imaged by the Spirit rover 01-23-06 Coarse-grained layers of possible explosive origin from the edge of the Home Plate plateau inside Gusev Crater imaged by the Spirit rover 02-10-06 Volcanic rock fragments littering the slope of Low Ridge imaged by the Spirit rover 04-13-06

Rocks in the News
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Detailed Silver Price Historical Chart    Detailed Gold Price Historical Chart
Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt? Dark Energy Independently Confirmed: The gravitationally repulsive presence, thought to make up most of the universe, shows its effect on the development of galaxy clusters.
Dark Energy Pushing Universe Apart: New findings boost the theory that dark energy is pushing apart all the matter in the universe and will continue doing so until no other galaxies except the nearby Andromeda galaxy will be visible from Earth.
Moon’s Polar Craters Could Hold Lunar Ice: Data from the Lunar Prospector space probe shows that hydrogen on the moon is concentrated into polar craters. If the hydrogen is present as water ice, then the average concentration in some craters corresponds to ten grams of ice in each kilogram of moon rock.
Life On Mars? Elusive Mineral Bolsters Chances: A research team has found evidence of carbonates, a long-sought mineral that shows Mars was home to a variety of watery environments - some benign, others harsh - and that the acidic bath the planet endured left at least some regional pockets unscathed.
Polygamy, Paternal Care In Birds Linked To Dinosaur Ancestors: Researchers connect the evolutionary dots linking the polygamous, paternal reproductive patterns of extant birds to the behavior of their extinct dinosaur kin.
Dinosaur Dads Took Care Of Nest: Surprising finding shows paternal care in birdlike dinos.
Scientists Abandon Global Warming 'Lie': A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming - labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion.
Hubble Spots CO2 On Extrasolar Planet: Carbon dioxide has been found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star, a finding that could help astronomers pinpoint the location of extraterrestrial life.
Titan's Volcanoes Give Cassini Spacecraft Chilly Reception: Data collected during several recent flybys of Titan by the Cassini spacecraft have put another arrow in the quiver of scientists who think the Saturnian moon contains active cryovolcanoes spewing a super-chilled liquid into its atmosphere.
As Ice Melts, Antarctic Bedrock Is On The Move: As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response - and other parts are sinking - a finding that will give much needed perspective to satellite instruments that measure ice loss on the continent, and help improve estimates of future sea level rise.
NASA Delays Next Mission to Mars: Technical glitches have forced a two-year delay to 2011 for the scheduled launch of the Mars Science Lab, a landmark mission which aims to assess whether microbial life ever existed on the red planet and whether it still exists today.
Rock and Roil: A new study suggests that extreme chemical reactions fired up by meteorite impacts may have jump-started life in the early oceans, rather than delivering its building blocks preformed.
Meteorites Could Have Thickened Primordial Soup: In recent geological ages, large extraterrestrial bodies colliding with Earth have been associated with worldwide extinctions, but new experiments show that massive impacts that occurred early in our planet's history could have created the raw materials for life.
Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze: The planet’s present day greenhouse scourge may have played a vital role in helping ancient Earth to escape from complete glaciation.
New Giant Toothless Pterosaur Species Discovered: A new species of pterosaur has been identified, the largest of its kind to ever be found. It represents an entirely new genus of these flying reptiles that ruled the skies 115 million years ago.
Another Big One for Indonesia?: Bad news for the survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Neither the giant earthquake that triggered the killer wave nor the hundreds of smaller temblors that followed have exhausted the area's pent-up seismic energy.
More Rocks in the News
Letters to the Editor
Say NO to Akaka Governed Public Land: A bitter legislative battle is raging over collecting fossils on public lands.

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Mineral Nomenclature: Naming New Minerals
So You've Discovered a New Mineral and Want to Name It "Spottite" After Your Dog...

Changes In Mineralogical Nomenclature: Varieties
Why Rock Scientists Won't Understand the Question When You Ask "What mineral is amethyst a variety of"?

Grand Hikes
A Virtual Tour and Rockhound's Hiking Guide for the Grand Canyon
Stromatolite Fossils in the Hakatai Shale - A Day Hike from Phantom Ranch
Comanche Point Vicinity - An Overnight Hike to Spectacular Grand Canyon Supergroup Views
Genesis V2.0 - God's Grand Work Week - A Grand Canyon Geology Primer
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Snapshots from the Tucson 2007 Gem and Mineral Show

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How to Wirewrap
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The Great Fresnoite Discovery of 1998
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Collecting at the Bunker Hill Mine
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Gypsum Rosettes
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Anatomy of a Three-Headed Sphere Machine
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Cabochon Making 101
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Feldspar
An Introduction to the Feldspar Minerals by Anita D. Westlake

Purple Passion Prospect
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Rock and Fossil Stamps of the United States
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Mineralogical Meanderings
The Hardness of Minerals and Rocks
Streaking Minerals - Streak Testing
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Some Surefire Signs You're a Rockhound
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