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Mars is scheduled to get another curious visitor from Earth on Sunday the 25th. The Phoenix robot lander will touch down at the Red Planet’s North Pole and "taste and sniff" the soil and buried water-ice that other robot instruments have shown to be there. Why bother? Aside from the Moon, Mars is the best spot for human colonies beyond the home planet. NASA has a blog that will begin coverage of Phoenix on Monday.