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Article: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's oven baking soil upto expectations

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June 18, 2008
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Washington, June 18 -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is baking its first sample of Martian soil, while its robotic arm continues to dig deeper into the soil to learn more about white material which might be possible ice.

Phoenix has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil and look for volatile ingredients, such as water. This baking is performed at three different temperature ranges.

"The oven is working very well and living up to our expectations," said Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA), or oven instrument, for ...

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