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Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole (AP)

This undated photo released by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Phoenix lander on the arctic plains of Mars just as it has begun to dig a trench through the upper layer of soil. The polar water ice cap is shown in the distance. (AP Photo/NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Corby Waste)AP - Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet's north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm is zeroing in on the unexplored arctic region where a reservoir of ice is believed to lie beneath the Martian surface.


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