Phoenix having trouble with clumpy Martian soil
The Phoenix lander has run into trouble getting samples of the clumpy Martian soil at its north polar landing site into its ovens for analysis. Mission controllers discovered the problem over the weekend when a large sample dumped by the lander’s robotic arm onto a sifting screen on the Thermal and...
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