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DescriptionPhoenix-Medium.jpg	English: On Launch Pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Phoenix Mars Lander waits for the fairing installation. Phoenix is targeted for launch on Aug. 3 aboard a Delta II rocket. The fairing is a molded structure that fits flush with the outside surface of the Delta II upper stage booster and forms an aerodynamically smooth nose cone, protecting the spacecraft during launch and ascent. 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. Landing on Mars is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil.
Date	27 July 2007
Source	https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-07pd2112 http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=33086 on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/07pd2112.jpg^{[dead link]}
Author	NASA/George Shelton

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	12:19, 4 August 2007		720 × 482 (49 KB)	Hellisp (talk \| contribs)	== Summary == PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Phoenix Mars Lander waits for he fairing installation. Phoenix is targeted fo

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