Word: unstowed
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...Phoenix will use the braking-rocket and foot-pad technique pioneered by the Viking and lunar Surveyor probes. Once on the surface, it will deploy a suite of scientific instruments to study the terrain around it: stereoscopic cameras, microscopic imagers, electrochemistry analyzers, meteorological sensors. Most dramatically, it will also unstow and flex a powerful, 8-ft. (2.35-m) robotic arm, equipped with a camera...
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