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Article: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scoops up soil sample for lab analysis
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 23, 2008
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Washington, Aug. 23 -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer and delivered it to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft for analysis.
The robotic arm on Phoenix collected the sample, dubbed "Burning Coals," from a trench named "Burn Alive 3."
In part of the trench, the arm had dug down to the hard, icy layer about 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) below the ground surface.
Next to that deeper part, it left a bench of material about 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) above the icy layer, and then collected about one-fourth to one-half a ...