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Scooped up Mars dirt
The Mars Phoenix Lander is finally going to scoop up its first Martian soil sample into its laboratory instrument. It's been about ten days since the landing, during which they've only managed to take...
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Stuck dirt
Despite all the anticipation, the Mars Phoenix Lander has failed to get Martian soil into its laboratory instrument. For some reason, while the robotic arm was able to scoop up some soil and drop it...
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Baking Mars dirt
The Mars Phoenix Lander has finally managed to shake some Martial soil into its laboratory instrument. The TEGA, the laboratory instrument on the lander, has eight ovens for baking soil to analyze the...
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Sticky Martian dirt
The Mars Phoenix Lander has been thwarted yet again in its attempts to scoop up Martian soil into one of its lab instruments. You might remember the previous occasion when the soil was too clumpy to...
View ArticleLaser light show on Mars
The Mars Phoenix Lander has a lidar used in meteorological research of Martian weather. A lidar is basically a radar which uses lasers instead of radio waves. It is used to study particles floating...
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Mystery of the missing water
With enough water on Mars to form frost and clouds, direct visual evidence of water ice, and water apparently responsible for the clumpy Martian soil, one would think that there would be the tiniest...
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Two ovens to go
TEGA As the sun is steadily getting lower around the north pole of Mars, the Mars Phoenix Lander has managed to scoop soil into its sixth oven out of the eight that came with TEGA, the thermal and...
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