Mars lander struggles to get dirt into onboard lab
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 15:42
in Astronomy & Space
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists struggled on Monday to process the soil that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped from the Red Planet's surface, finding that the Martian dirt was too clumpy to sift into the spacecraft's onboard laboratory.
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