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May 25, 2008

Flight controllers, wearing matching blue polo shirts, are watching radio signals from Phoenix as it prepares to begin its transition from spacecraft to lander. The star-tracker was turned off and the probe will soon jettison its cruise stage. This will put Phoenix on battery power.

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