H20 at the phoenix landing site

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5936, 2009, Pages 58-61

  Smith, P H ^a   Tamppari, L K ^b   Arvidson, R E ^c   Bass, D ^b   Blaney, D ^b   Boynton, W V ^a   Carswell, A ^d   Catling, D C ^e,f   Clark, B C ^g   Duck, T ^h   DeJong, E ^b   Fisher, D ⁱ   Goetz, W ^j   Gunnlaugsson, H P ^k   Hecht, M H ^b   Hipkin, V ^l   Hoffman, J ^m   Hviid, S F ^j   Keller, H U ^j   Kounaves, S P ⁿ   Lange, C F ^o   Lemmon, M T ^p   Madsen, M B ^q   Markiewicz, W J ^j   Marshall, J ^r   McKay, C P ^s   Mellon, M T ^t   Ming, D W ^u   Morris, R V ^u   Pike, W T ^v   Renno, N ^w   Staufer, U ^x,y   Stoker, C ^s   Taylor, P ^z   Whiteway, J A ^z   Zent, A P ^s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^h DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^l CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

ⁿ TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^p TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^r SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^u NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^w IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^y DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^z YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; ICE; INORGANIC SALT; MINERAL; SNOW; WATER;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ICE; MARS; PH; SOIL CHEMISTRY; WATER; WATER TABLE;

AIRPORT; ALKALINITY; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; LONGITUDE; MEASUREMENT; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; VAPOR; WEATHER; WEIGHT; MICROCLIMATE; PH; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ICE; MARS; ROBOTICS; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 67650069400     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172339     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank our project manager, B. Goldstein; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team; and our aerospace partner, Lockheed Martin. The University of Arizona supported Phoenix throughout the mission. We appreciate the help of the orbiter teams, in particular, the THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System) team [P. Christensen, principal investigator (PI)] and the HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) team (A. McEwen, PI). Funding for this research came from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.