Phoenix put its engineering team’s creativity to the test this weekend when the first scoopful of martian soil dumped into one of the Thermal Emission and Gas Analyzer (TEGA) ovens failed to actually make it to the oven. Emily over at the Planetary Society has a great post on this, so I’ll just summarize here. The scoop of soil was from the top 2-4 centimeters of soil on the north … Continue reading For Phoenix, size (and cohesion) matters