Launchpad: Using Technology to Make Discoveries on Mars

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Find out about the technology on the Mars Phoenix Lander that helps NASA remotely explore the distant planet. Learn about the filters that are used to obtain color images and the high-tech oven that proved the existence of water ice on Mars.

Published on: June 23, 2009

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NASA; NASA eClips; NIA; Launchpad; Phoenix; Mars; Lander; microbes; sols; TEGA; water; technology, High School, science, technology, engineering, math, STEM, education, video, telescopes, Mariner, Water, robotic arm, water vapor, surface stereo imager, NG