[Lvas] Phoenix Mars Lander Blasts Off

[Douglas Phillipson]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292113,00.html?sPage=fnc.science/space

Off we go to Mars again to search for water in Mars' Arctic circle:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —  A robotic dirt and ice digger blasted off 
Saturday on a 422 million-mile journey to Mars that NASA hopes will 
culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planet's 
Arctic Circle.



Doug P