An update on the soil that’s too clumpy to fall through the screen on the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA): to try to break up and loosen the soil, the engineers shook it for 7 minutes using vibrators inside TEGA. A few particles were detected to fall through the grate, but not enough to fill the oven and run a test Here’s an animation of the clumpy soil before and … Continue reading Phoenix tries to shake 'n bake