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The Library Has Landed! Phoenix Takes Books to Mars

June 11, 2008

Human interactions with the Red Planet have long been a blend of wonder, science, imagination, fear, longing & engineering. In honor of this interplay, The Planetary Society has placed a DVD among the scientific instruments on board the Phoenix Lander that touched down on the Martian south pole this last memorial day. And it carries books.

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Shelved with: Science & Technology
Tagged With: Gene Roddenberry, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Holidays, Mars, Memorial Day, NASA, Phoenix Mars Mission, Planetary Society, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Space, University of Arizona
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