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Martian soil piled on top NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's deck and some of its instruments is seen in this October 19, 2008 image taken by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager.
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008

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  • PETER SMITH,
  • chief scientist working on the Phoenix spacecraft, after engineers had not heard from the mission in over a week. The Phoenix lander was the first spacecraft to land on Mars' arctic plains
Photo: Max Planck Institute / University of Arizona / JPL-Caltech / NASA / Reuters | Source: AP