If all goes right, in June 2008, a small piece of the Palouse will be stabbing into the northern polar ice cap of Mars.
Pullman-based Decagon Devices Inc., founded in 1983 by former WSU soil scientist Gaylon Campbell, has 44 employees researching, creating and marketing products that have applications in foods, pharmaceuticals, biology, forestry, soil sciences, and now, researching Mars. The Phoenix Lander is planned to land May 2008 in the northern polar region of Mars, and expose the upper few feet of surface material using a robotic arm to find the ice discovered by the Odyssey mission in 2002.
March 12th, 2005
Mars to get a piece of Pullman The Daily Evergreen
August 29th, 2003
Hundreds pack observatory The Daily Evergreen
As a result of the combined efforts of WSU physics professor Guy Worthey and the Palouse Astronomical Society, WSU students and Pullman residents alike were seeing stars, and a historical glimpse of Mars, Wednesday night. Held at WSU’s Jewett Observatory, the Mars viewing event attracted more than 1,000 attendees and lasted well into the following morning.