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Phoenix scientists soon will analyze Martian ice
Yahoo News ^
| 07/04/08
Posted on 07/05/2008 7:18:16 AM PDT by KevinDavis
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists with the US Phoenix lander will make their first analysis of Martian ice fragments in coming days but it could be the last done in one of the probe's small ovens, NASA said on its website Friday. ADVERTISEMENT
A team of engineers and scientists were trying to get to the bottom of what caused a short-circuit on the TEGA (Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer) which has four small ovens able to heat samples of Martian soil up to 1,000 degrees Celsius.
"Since there is no way to assess the probability of another short circuit occurring, we are taking the most conservative approach and treating the next sample to TEGA as possibly our last," said the University of Arixona's Peter Smith, Phoenix's principal investigator and top mission scientific official.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: mars; phoenix; space
This is going to be interesting if they find something..
To: markman46; AntiKev; wastedyears; ALOHA RONNIE; RightWhale; anymouse; Brett66; SunkenCiv; ...
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:19:07 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Barak Obama: The Candidate of Clarification)
To: KevinDavis
First chance to find alien life on other planets potentially and we roast it in an oven.
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:19:09 AM PDT
by
commonguymd
(Freedom and individual liberty is for everyone, including the odd and weird people like you.)
To: commonguymd; All
Roasted Martians over an open fire..
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:20:00 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Barak Obama: The Candidate of Clarification)
To: commonguymd
First chance to find alien life on other planets potentially and we roast it in an oven. I wonder what Martian life tastes like?
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:24:16 AM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Mojave
Figure I will beat people to the punch and say Chicken.
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:26:47 AM PDT
by
commonguymd
(Freedom and individual liberty is for everyone, including the odd and weird people like you.)
To: commonguymd
Martian chicken. Mmmmm.
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posted on
07/05/2008 7:33:33 AM PDT
by
Mojave
To: KevinDavis
A team of engineers and scientists were trying to get to the bottom of what caused a short-circuit on the TEGA This will be a barrel of laughs to here what Hoagland thinks about this.
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posted on
07/05/2008 8:14:18 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: KevinDavis
This is going to be interesting if they find something..Expecting to find life in Martian ice is like standing on a beach and expecting to find computer chips.
I'm not holding my breath.
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posted on
07/05/2008 8:17:51 AM PDT
by
Politically Correct
(A member of the rabble in good standing)
To: KevinDavis
yeah...all this money spent on a Martian probe, and what they really have is just a little suzie homemaker space oven on wheels, for baking martian mudpies?
-I smell conspiracy!
8^B
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posted on
07/05/2008 8:24:05 AM PDT
by
FBD
(My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
To: Brett66
"short-circuit on the TEGA"
caused by excess moisture, perhaps?
To: Mojave; commonguymd; Brett66; Politically Correct; KevinDavis; FBD; Brian S. Fitzgerald; All
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posted on
07/05/2008 10:25:01 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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