After its successful May 25 landing on Mars, the Mars Phoenix
Lander remained in good health on the Red Planet’s northern plains. But plans
to unlatch and flex the craft’s robotic arm — designed to dig for possible ice
under the hard soil — are now delayed for at least another day because a radio
transmitter on a spacecraft flying overhead failed to deliver commands to the
Lander.
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