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The University of Arizona is honored to be the first public university to lead a mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to land May 25, 2008, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program.

The seasonal ice cap at the Martian south pole (the one made of dry ice) is evaporating as Astronomers at the University of Arizona watch. A brief discussion of the geology that results.