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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers prepare the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft for solar panel deployment. The deployment of the panels is part of the pre-launch testing under way. Phoenix will land in icy soils near the north polar permanent ice cap of Mars and explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate.
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