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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f7dfe311-6149-4dc1-bff1-d801c570d333/D38DE1DB-B581-461E-9EAD-6B308280D458/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/19B2ABCB-2155-4B4A-8006-46B886888147" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th"><P>PASADENA, Calif. — One day after a picture-perfect landing on <A title="More articles about Mars (Planet)." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/mars_planet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">Mars</A>, <A title="More articles about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_aeronautics_and_space_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org">NASA</A>’s Phoenix lander seemed Monday to be in perfect health.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th"><P>“This is an engineer’s delight,” said Barry Goldstein, the mission’s project manager.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th"><P>On Monday morning, a new set of instructions was sent to the Phoenix, and the results, including more photographs, were expected soon. 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Smith of the <A title="More articles about the University of Arizona." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_arizona/index.html?inline=nyt-org">University of Arizona</A>, the mission’s principal investigator.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th">If this mission were to find ice wedges in the cracks on Mars, he added, “that would mean there was a very wet environment sometime in the past in this region, and that would be a major discovery for our science team.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27nasa.html?th&emc=th">But does the ice melt?” Dr. Smith asked. “That’s the real question.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D38DE1DB-B581-461E-9EAD-6B308280D458/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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