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Colorado-Built Mars Lander Gets Set For Liftoff

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Aug 1, 2007 11:59 am US/Mountain

Colorado-Built Mars Lander Gets Set For Liftoff

LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) ― The Mars Phoenix Lander built by Lockheed Martin in Colorado is scheduled to be launched Saturday.

The spacecraft will land near the planet's North Pole to look for evidence of past life on the red planet.

Saturday's early morning launch will be from NASA Kennedy's Space Center in Florida.

"This is an exciting mission," said Deborah Bass, the deputy project scientist on the mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "We're going to a place on Mars we've never seen before and we're getting information on a habitable zone, that's pretty special."

The Mars Phoenix Lander will also be controlled for much of its journey from the Lockheed Martin facility in Jefferson County.

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