Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil

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NASAs Phoenix Mars Landers Surface Stereo Imager took this image on Sol 14 (June 8 2008) the 14th Martian day after landing.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager took this image on Sol 14 (June 8, 2008), the 14th Martian day after landing.

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. "We have an oven full," Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said today. "It took 10 seconds to fill the oven. The ground moved."


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