May 26 (Bloomberg)—NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander touched down safely today on the Red Planet, where the probe will sift through the icy soil for any signs that it once harbored life.
``We’ve passed the hardest part and we’re breathing again,’’ Mars Phoenix Project Manager Barry Goldstein said, according to NASA. The Red Planet’s rocky terrain and equipment problems have led to the failure of more than half of all Mars missions, including a Phoenix predecessor destroyed in 1999.
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