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Article: Phoenix Mars Lander scoops up 'almost perfect' icy soil for analysis
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 2, 2008
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Washington, July 2 -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up little piles of 'almost perfect' icy soil from the surface of the Red Planet, which would be analyzed further.
The icy soil has been scraped up from the "Snow White" trench, which Phoenix had enlarged on June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade on its scoop to make 50 scrapes in the icy layer buried under subsurface soil.
The robotic arm then heaped the scrapings into a few 10- to 20-cubic centimeter piles, or piles each containing between two and four teaspoonfuls.
Scraping created a grid about two ...