Multimedia Advisory: Hear About a Journey to the Martian North Pole

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Multimedia Advisory                               August 2 , 2007

Hear About a Journey to the Martian North Pole   The Phoenix Mars lander is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral , Fla., this weekend.   In a new audio podcast, Phoenix Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains how the mission will sample soil and ice near the Martian north pole to determine whether the region might have had conditions suitable for life.   Listen to the podcast online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/phoenix-20070802/  or through popular podcast distribution services.   More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix .   -end-