O:9:"MagpieRSS":23:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:100:{i:0;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:65:"NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-183";s:11:"description";s:73:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:73:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222671600;}i:1;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:53:"NASA Stardust Capsule to Go on Display at Smithsonian";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-181";s:11:"description";s:205:"Having returned the world's first particles 
from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the 
collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space 
Museum in Washington.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:205:"Having returned the world's first particles 
from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the 
collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space 
Museum in Washington.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222326000;}i:2;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:51:"NASA Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on Mars";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-180";s:11:"description";s:198:"NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed 
hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions 
of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:198:"NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed 
hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions 
of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222326000;}i:3;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:55:"NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-179";s:11:"description";s:108:"NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:108:"NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222153200;}i:4;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output at 50-Year Low";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-178";s:11:"description";s:145:"Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:145:"Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222153200;}i:5;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:45:"NASA's Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-177";s:11:"description";s:148:"If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 
can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would 
like to see what's underneath.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:148:"If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 
can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would 
like to see what's underneath.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222066800;}i:6;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:46:"NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-176";s:11:"description";s:130:"NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its 
sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the 
past two years.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:130:"NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its 
sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the 
past two years.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1222066800;}i:7;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Water Hit With Young Star's Best Shot";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1869";s:11:"description";s:134:"Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:134:"Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1221721200;}i:8;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1867";s:11:"description";s:105:"You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:105:"You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1221634800;}i:9;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:62:"NASA's Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-174";s:11:"description";s:169:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:169:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1221116400;}i:10;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-173";s:11:"description";s:215:"The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:215:"The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220943600;}i:11;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-172";s:11:"description";s:186:"NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon.  ";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:186:"NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon.  ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220598000;}i:12;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-171";s:11:"description";s:197:"A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside Phoenix, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly 
and perplexingly dry.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:197:"A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside Phoenix, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly 
and perplexingly dry.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220511600;}i:13;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:58:"NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial Worlds";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-170";s:11:"description";s:222:"NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:222:"NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220425200;}i:14;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1848";s:11:"description";s:181:"Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:181:"Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220252400;}i:15;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Gustav Grinds Ashore";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2008/h2008_gustav.html";s:11:"description";s:171:"This Sept. 1 early morning infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft  
shows Hurricane Gustav about six hours before the Category Two storm  
made landfall in Louisiana.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:171:"This Sept. 1 early morning infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft  
shows Hurricane Gustav about six hours before the Category Two storm  
made landfall in Louisiana.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220252400;}i:16;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Gustav Grows, Sets Its Eye on Cuba, Gulf";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/main/index.html";s:11:"description";s:155:"The clearly defined eye of powerful Hurricane Gustav prepares to strike western Cuba in this Aug. 30 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:155:"The clearly defined eye of powerful Hurricane Gustav prepares to strike western Cuba in this Aug. 30 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1220079600;}i:17;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Gustav Strengthens in the Caribbean";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/main/index.html";s:11:"description";s:131:"A swirl of purple marks the high, cold clouds atop Hurricane Gustav in this Aug. 29 afternoon image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.  
";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:131:"A swirl of purple marks the high, cold clouds atop Hurricane Gustav in this Aug. 29 afternoon image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.  
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219993200;}i:18;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:59:"NASA Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-167";s:11:"description";s:121:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:121:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219993200;}i:19;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:51:"NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-168";s:11:"description";s:142:"NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:142:"NASA's Mars 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Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-166";s:11:"description";s:199:"NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:199:"NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219734000;}i:22;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-165";s:11:"description";s:165:"The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:165:"The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219647600;}i:23;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-164";s:11:"description";s:108:"A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:108:"A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219388400;}i:24;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-163";s:11:"description";s:137:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:137:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219302000;}i:25;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-162";s:11:"description";s:230:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:230:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219215600;}i:26;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-161";s:11:"description";s:143:"Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:143:"Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219215600;}i:27;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Young Thinkers Get to Tinker at JPL";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1830";s:11:"description";s:171:"More than 300 students have swelled JPL's ranks this summer, hailing from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and graduate schools across the country.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:171:"More than 300 students have swelled JPL's ranks this summer, hailing from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and graduate schools across the country.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1219215600;}i:28;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-160";s:11:"description";s:123:"Cassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:123:"Cassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218697200;}i:29;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-158";s:11:"description";s:139:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:139:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218697200;}i:30;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Cassini Begins  Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-157";s:11:"description";s:142:"Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began 
sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:142:"Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began 
sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218438000;}i:31;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:41:"JPL Camera Marks Hubble's 100,000th Orbit";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1824";s:11:"description";s:197:"To commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away. 
";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:197:"To commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away. 
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218438000;}i:32;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-156a";s:11:"description";s:150:"Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Saturday, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:150:"Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218265200;}i:33;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-156";s:11:"description";s:162:"Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's 
moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini 
spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:162:"Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's 
moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini 
spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1218092400;}i:34;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-155";s:11:"description";s:232:"Mission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:232:"Mission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217919600;}i:35;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:43:"NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-154";s:11:"description";s:195:"Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:195:"Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217833200;}i:36;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:56:"NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-153";s:11:"description";s:91:"Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 
have identified water in a soil sample.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:91:"Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander 
have identified water in a soil sample.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217487600;}i:37;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Quake Demonstrates Ongoing Forecasting Experiment";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1813";s:11:"description";s:225:"This week's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Southern California marks another demonstration of an ongoing experiment by a NASA/Department of Energy-funded research team to forecast the location of large earthquakes in California.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:225:"This week's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Southern California marks another demonstration of an ongoing experiment by a NASA/Department of Energy-funded research team to forecast the location of large earthquakes in California.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217401200;}i:38;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:40:"NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn Moon";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-152";s:11:"description";s:185:"NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:185:"NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217401200;}i:39;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-151";s:11:"description";s:133:"Less than a month after launch, the new NASA-French space agency Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:133:"Less than a month after launch, the new NASA-French space agency Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217401200;}i:40;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-150";s:11:"description";s:196:"A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:196:"A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217314800;}i:41;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:51:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1808";s:11:"description";s:243:"Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:243:"Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217228400;}i:42;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-147";s:11:"description";s:159:"Phoenix's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:159:"Phoenix's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217142000;}i:43;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on Delivery";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-146";s:11:"description";s:179:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Saturday, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:179:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1217055600;}i:44;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Phoenix Scoop Ready for Sampling";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-145";s:11:"description";s:193:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:193:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216969200;}i:45;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:60:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample Analysis";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-143";s:11:"description";s:206:"The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:206:"The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216796400;}i:46;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-142";s:11:"description";s:70:"Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:70:"Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216710000;}i:47;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:53:"NASA's JPL, Ames Win 2007 NASA Software of Year Award";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-141";s:11:"description";s:154:"NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:154:"NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216710000;}i:48;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:68:"New NASA 'Fire and Smoke' Web Page Shows Latest Fire Views, Research";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-140";s:11:"description";s:172:"NASA satellites, aircraft and research know-how, including resources and expertise from JPL, comprise a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:172:"NASA satellites, aircraft and research know-how, including resources and expertise from JPL, comprise a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216710000;}i:49;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:50:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-139";s:11:"description";s:192:"To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:192:"To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216623600;}i:50;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-138";s:11:"description";s:105:"The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:105:"The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216623600;}i:51;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:52:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1794";s:11:"description";s:179:"The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:179:"The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216364400;}i:52;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:48:"NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-137";s:11:"description";s:134:"NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of 
the moon passing in front of Earth as seen from the spacecraft's 
point of view.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:134:"NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of 
the moon passing in front of Earth as seen from the spacecraft's 
point of view.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216278000;}i:53;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:48:"3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1792";s:11:"description";s:103:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:103:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216278000;}i:54;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-136";s:11:"description";s:175:"A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a 
planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's 
atmosphere.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:175:"A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a 
planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's 
atmosphere.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216278000;}i:55;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Ocean Surface a Boon for Extreme Event Forecasts, Warnings";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1790";s:11:"description";s:148:"For humans in the path of destructive hurricanes and tsunamis, an accurate warning of the pending event is critical for damage control and survival.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:148:"For humans in the path of destructive hurricanes and tsunamis, an accurate warning of the pending event is critical for damage control and survival.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216191600;}i:56;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:63:"NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-135";s:11:"description";s:202:"Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:202:"Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216191600;}i:57;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1788";s:11:"description";s:187:"A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:187:"A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216191600;}i:58;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:56:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-133";s:11:"description";s:161:"A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:161:"A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216105200;}i:59;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:26:"JPL Enters the Blogosphere";s:4:"link";s:26:"http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/";s:11:"description";s:282:"A new JPL blog features scientists and engineers who will offer insights into their areas of expertise - ranging from Mars, Saturn and other solar system bodies to the universe beyond. Topics closer to home, like climate change, will also be discussed. Public comments are welcome.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:282:"A new JPL blog features scientists and engineers who will offer insights into their areas of expertise - ranging from Mars, Saturn and other solar system bodies to the universe beyond. Topics closer to home, like climate change, will also be discussed. Public comments are welcome.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216191600;}i:60;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New Competition";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-132";s:11:"description";s:134:"A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:134:"A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216105200;}i:61;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:43:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-131";s:11:"description";s:189:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:189:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1216018800;}i:62;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:58:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-130";s:11:"description";s:179:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:179:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215673200;}i:63;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-129";s:11:"description";s:159:"Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the 
very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 
per year.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:159:"Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the 
very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 
per year.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215673200;}i:64;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-128";s:11:"description";s:136:"Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's 
ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite 
maps from NASA.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:136:"Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's 
ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite 
maps from NASA.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215586800;}i:65;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Sample-Collection Tests by NASA's Phoenix Lander Continue";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-127";s:11:"description";s:187:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA).";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:187:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA).";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215500400;}i:66;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:71:"NASA Mission to be Crystal Ball into Oceans' Future, Mirror to the Past";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1778";s:11:"description";s:230:"Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods, and the homes that could be spared from the effects of coastline erosion if only scientists could more accurately predict the dynamics of Earth's often unpredictable oceans.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:230:"Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods, and the homes that could be spared from the effects of coastline erosion if only scientists could more accurately predict the dynamics of Earth's often unpredictable oceans.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215500400;}i:67;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:52:"NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-126";s:11:"description";s:195:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:195:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1215414000;}i:68;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-125";s:11:"description";s:108:"The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will be ice-rich.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:108:"The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will be ice-rich.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214982000;}i:69;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:59:"New Mission Helps Offshore Industries Dodge Swirling Waters";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1773";s:11:"description";s:143:"Hurricanes aren't the only hazards spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico -- they have a liquid counterpart in the waters below called ocean eddies.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:143:"Hurricanes aren't the only hazards spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico -- they have a liquid counterpart in the waters below called ocean eddies.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214895600;}i:70;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-124";s:11:"description";s:167:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:167:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214895600;}i:71;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:44:"100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska Impact";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1769";s:11:"description";s:133:"At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:133:"At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214550000;}i:72;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-122a";s:11:"description";s:188:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:188:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214550000;}i:73;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-122";s:11:"description";s:232:"NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets-Titan and Enceladus.";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Friday, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:232:"NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets-Titan and Enceladus.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214550000;}i:74;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-121";s:11:"description";s:196:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment 
on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that 
for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery.";s:7:"pubdate";s:35:"Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:196:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment 
on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that 
for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214463600;}i:75;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:80:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-120";s:11:"description";s:129:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:129:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214377200;}i:76;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:61:"NASA Mission to Answer Lingering Questions From Deep Blue Sea";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1762";s:11:"description";s:129:"Ocean tides and currents across the globe still hold within their watery grasp the key to unanswered questions about our planet. ";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:129:"Ocean tides and currents across the globe still hold within their watery grasp the key to unanswered questions about our planet. ";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214377200;}i:77;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:53:"NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar System";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-119";s:11:"description";s:156:"New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.";s:7:"pubdate";s:36:"Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:156:"New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214377200;}i:78;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Phoenix Poised to Deliver Sample for Wet Chemistry";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-117a";s:11:"description";s:145:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander repositioned its robotic arm slightly today and is now poised to deliver Martian soil to its wet chemistry laboratory.";s:7:"pubdate";s:34:"Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:145:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander repositioned its robotic arm slightly today and is now poised to deliver Martian soil to its wet chemistry laboratory.";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1214290800;}i:79;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-116b";s:11:"description";s:202:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian
soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis
tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:33:"Monday, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT ";s:7:"summary";s:202:"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian
soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis
tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
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within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving
for science.
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