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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jeremy Manier / The Bulletin
June 14, 2008
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Phoenix probe scraped the frigid Martian ground with its robotic arm Friday and revealed what looks like a layer of ice or perhaps bright salt just beneath the red soil.
The lander also sent back its first microscopic pictures....