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Is that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?

No this is the asteroid that wiped out the Barsoomians

 

[RightWhale]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080625meca.html

Phoenix Mars lander puts soil in chemistry lab

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NEWS RELEASE
Posted: June 25, 2008

TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft’s wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time. Results from that instrument, part of Phoenix’s Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, are expected to provide the first measurement of the acidity or alkalinity of the planet’s soil.
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