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Mars lander struggles to get dirt into onboard lab (Reuters)

View from the Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the partial opening of the doors to one of the tiny ovens of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer in this image taken during Phoenix's eighth Martian day, or sol, June 2, 2008. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Handout/Reuters)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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