NASA’s Phoenix Finally Fills Oven
JoeRobe writes “Phoenix has successfully filled oven #4 of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument (TEGA). They have spent several days now vibrating the screen above the oven, trying to get a significant amount of soil sample into it. From the article: “[T]he oven might have filled because of the cumulative effects of all the vibrating, or because of changes in the soil’s cohesiveness as it sat for days on the top of the screen.” Either way, this is the first step toward getting some interesting data from this instrument.”
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