NASA announced today that the Scout Mission"Phoenix," that includes a sophisticated instrumentation package developed bya team of Canadian scientists and engineers, has been selected to go to Marsin 2007. The focus of the Canadian team will be on studies of the Martianatmosphere using laser radar (lidar) technology. Researchers from YorkUniversity, headed by Dr. Allan Carswell, Professor Emeritus at York andChairman of Optech Incorporated, will lead the Canadian scientificinvestigations in collaboration with scientists from several other Canadianuniversities.
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/August2003/04/c7798.html
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