The next soil sample that NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix’s wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team’s ...

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To bring a Martian rock sample to Earth without setting loose any potential Red Planet pathogens, NASA will need to go where no space agency has gone before — a special containment lab that doesn’t ...