Thursday 12 June 2008

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

Source: NASA/Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. Under the surface soil a white material, that can be ice or salt, can be seen in the image.

"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. The ground moved." (read more)

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