If all goes well, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander will set down on the Martian surface near the planet’s North Pole at roughly 7:53 p.m. EDT on Sunday (tomorrow).
Two other missions, the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, are alive and well — far past their designed lifetimes — in widespread locations near the Martian Equator [...]
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