Mars lander has trouble delivering soil sample to its oven

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A panoramic mosaic of images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This mosaic documents the midnight sun during several days of the mission. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A sample of icy soil collected by the robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is apparently stuck in its scoop, foiling efforts to analyze it. Submitted by: megadeth199 | Visited 10 times | Comments 0

♦ NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil

1 vote	ScienceDaily (Jun. 11, 2008) — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. Boynton leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA, for Phoenix. The instrument has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to assess its volatile ingredients, such as water. Submitted by: cosmictap - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars Phoenix has an Oven Full of Martian Soil

1 vote	NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. "We have an oven full," Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said today. "It took 10 seconds to fill the oven. Submitted by: deepower - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Robotic arm of Mars lander touches soil, leaves 'footprint'

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TUCSON (AP) — NASA's new robot on Mars has reached out and touched the soil for the first time, leaving behind a striking footprint-like impression, scientists said Sunday. The Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm was making a test run, just one week after its landing. The spacecraft, which is also its own laboratory, will soon start scooping up soil and ice and running tests on it. Submitted by: livingearth - Visited 0 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Robotic arm of Mars lander touches soil, leaves 'footprint'

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TUCSON (AP) — NASA's new robot on Mars has reached out and touched the soil for the first time, leaving behind a striking footprint-like impression, scientists said Sunday. The Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm was making a test run, just one week after its landing. The spacecraft, which is also its own laboratory, will soon start scooping up soil and ice and running tests on it. Submitted by: oblivion19 - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida' has its moments

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First, let's state the obvious: For a band that stresses its modesty to the point of self-consciousness, Coldplay has come up with an awfully pretentious-sounding title for its new CD, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (* * * out of four ). The members' names may be listed at the bottom of the album credits, but there's no disguising that this is their stab, however conflicted... Submitted by: cosmictap - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars team ponders whether Phoenix Lander sees ice or salt

1 vote	LOS ANGELES — Is the white stuff in the Martian soil ice or salt? That's the question bedeviling scientists in the three weeks since the Phoenix lander began digging into Mars' north pole region to study whether the arctic could be habitable. Submitted by: Ang3r - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars team ponders whether Phoenix Lander sees ice or salt

1 vote	LOS ANGELES — Is the white stuff in the Martian soil ice or salt? That's the question bedeviling scientists in the three weeks since the Phoenix lander began digging into Mars' north pole region to study whether the arctic could be habitable. Submitted by: greenmachine - Visited 13 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars lander faces one-day delay in arm-moving orders

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TUCSON — A day after an orbiter's radio shutdown blocked NASA from telling its newly planted Phoenix Mars lander what to do, orders were on the way to get its robotic arm moving. A UHF radio on the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter turned off Tuesday, preventing it from relaying the command from NASA to the lander to begin to unfurl its 8-foot robotic arm. Submitted by: mosa - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Glitch threatens chemical mission of Phoenix Mars lander

1 vote	Cautious scientists worry that Phoneix Mars lander, seen in this artist rendition, won't be able to complete its chemical analysis mission due to an electrical glitch. LOS ANGELES — Will the Mars lander's next baking test of soil and ice be its last? Scientists worry that it could be... Submitted by: nicheestates - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars Lander Scrapes Icy Soil in Wonderland

1 vote	Untitled Document NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on, NASA announced on Friday.   Phoenix scientists are now assured they have a complete soil-layer profile in Wonderland's "Snow White" extended trench. Reaching the icy layer confirms that surface soil... Submitted by: Suri.CMS - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Glitch threatens chemical mission of Phoenix Mars lander

1 vote	Cautious scientists worry that Phoneix Mars lander, seen in this artist rendition, won't be able to complete its chemical analysis mission due to an electrical glitch. LOS ANGELES Will the Mars lander's next baking test of soil and ice be its last? Scientists worry that it could be... Submitted by: tribulus - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Phoenix To Retest Martian Soil

1 vote	Engineers and scientists operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided early yesterday to repeat a practice of releasing Martian soil from the scoop on the lander's Robotic Arm.When the lander collected and released its first scoopful of soil on Sunday, some of the sample stuck to the scoop. Submitted by: Bravo - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Phoenix Mars Lander gets first scoop of Martian soil

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LOS ANGELES — NASA's newest spacecraft on Mars got down and dirty, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday. NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday. Submitted by: alfaresy - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Phoenix Mars Lander gets first scoop of Martian soil

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LOS ANGELES — NASA's newest spacecraft on Mars got down and dirty, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday. NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday. Submitted by: BreezeTR - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars lander faces one-day delay in arm-moving orders

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TUCSON — A day after an orbiter's radio shutdown blocked NASA from telling its newly planted Phoenix Mars lander what to do, orders were on the way to get its robotic arm moving. A UHF radio on the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter turned off Tuesday, preventing it from relaying the command from NASA to the lander to begin to unfurl its 8-foot robotic arm. Submitted by: iowadawg - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper

1 vote	One of the ovens on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material first revealed on June 3. Submitted by: john247 - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Phoenix Mars lander scientists to try last soil shake

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LOS ANGELES — Scientists troubleshooting the Phoenix lander said Monday they will try one last shake to get a scoopful of Martian dirt inside a tiny oven in hopes of jump-starting their study of Mars' north pole region. Phoenix's first science experiment to heat the permafrost soil was delayed after it was discovered that virtually none of it passed through a screen to reach a miniature oven... Submitted by: Overclock099 - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Christmas savings firm 'recovers'

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Christmas savings firm Park Group has said its sales are recovering after the failure of hamper firm Farepak in 2006 hit confidence in the industry. The collapse of Farepak, its rival, caused Park Group's Christmas revenues to fall by 34% last year compared with the position a year earlier. But orders for Christmas 2008 are now up 17%, thanks to its new payment protection scheme, the firm said. Submitted by: ZakYoung - Visited 11 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Samsung revs up its Seoul machine for CommunicAsia

1 vote	Samsung Impact(Credit: Samsung) Having sold 161 million handsets worldwide last year, the Korean phone maker certainly has its sights set on consolidating its number two position with a strong lineup of handsets for the second half of 2008. Submitted by: dapyx - Visited 14 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mars Lander Prepares for Icy Sample

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Martian dirt where the spacecraft touched down two months ago. informally known as Snow White. on red planet. vapors given off to determine the soil's composition. the mission past its originally-slated 90 days. to make sure they can operate TEGA properly in the early Mars morning. Mars' equator. Images: Phoenix on Mars! Science. Technology. Sustainability. Submitted by: GloBleeOne - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment