• Phoenix Fails to Make First Analysis of Martian Soil


    The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA for short, on board the Phoenix Mars Lander, failed to pass its first sample test after the Martian soil delivered by the robotic arm of the lander was unable to reach the instrument. Mission controllers said on Saturday that they would try to determine what went wrong in the days to come. The images show that the test oven of TEGA is almost fully covered with soil (see bottom image of the instrument taken a couple of days before the te...

    Published : 2008-06-09 Read more

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