Mars lander's 1st soil sample may not be analyzed (Reuters)

This color image, acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 7, the seventh day of the mission on June 1, 2008, and released by NASA June 2. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A and M University/Handout/Reuters) Reuters - Dirt that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped recently from the planet's surface may be too clumpy to be analyzed by the machine's onboard system, NASA reported on Saturday.