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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lifts the backshell with the Phoenix Mars Lander inside off its work stand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The spacecraft is being moved to a spin table (back left) for spin testing. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed program of Mars Scout missions. Phoenix will land in icy soils near the north polar permanent ice cap of Mars and explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate. Landing is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil. It will serve as NASA's first exploration of a potential modern habitat on Mars and open the door to a renewed search for carbon-bearing compounds, last attempted with NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. A stereo color camera and a weather station will study the surrounding environment while the other instruments check excavated soil samples for water, organic chemicals and conditions that could indicate whether the site was ever hospitable to life. Microscopes can reveal features as small as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Launch of Phoenix aboard a Delta II rocket is targeted for Aug. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd1092
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COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
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COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
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COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
COBE (COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER) MODEL
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Description: MODEL OF NASA COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER(COBE) SPACECRAFT IN GSFC BUILDING 5. THE MODEL IS BEING SHIPPED TO SWEDEN AND DR. JOHN MATHER WANTED A RECORD OF IT BEFORE IT LEFT.
Photographer: PAT IZZO
Date: 11/17/2006
Job Number: 2007-00162-0
Preservation Copy: .tif
2006
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cobe
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explorer
cosmic background explorer
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nasa cosmic background explorer
gsfc building
john mather
pat izzo
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preservation copy
us national archives
Date
2006 - 2011
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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