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OCR: HOW A SPACE PROBE WORKS SPACE TECHNOLOGY WHAT THE LANDER DOES LANDER'S SAMPLER ARM On the surface of a planet, landing The arm emerges from the probes collect samples by scooping up lander, scoops up the soul, soil or drilling into rock Specimens and collects are chemically analyzed to discover Telescopic samples via the what elements they contain. Samples boom boom. can also be brought back to Earth. The Viking probes, which landed on Mars in 1976, had automated laboratories to Head test the soil for signs of life. They also studied Magnet Mars's weather and took pictures showing to attract minerals surface details at the landing sites. Shovel VIKING LANDER This lander was despatched to the Martian surface with a sampler arm and computer to analyze the soil. SEE ALSO SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPAC ...