TEGA - Round 2 Options

[djellison]

I challenge you not to look at this and make a ping/spring/boing happy sort of a noise.

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_14223.jpg

[NotLurkingAnymor...]

Just a few more thoughts on the state of oven 0.

As this is Mars and prof. Murphy's laws prevail (Oppy being the exception), This oven was one grain short of a full-signal.
Prof. Murphy's second law clearly states the water content of this sample, after sitting for a Sol+ in TEGA's warm belly.

All I'm thinking is that subsequent attempts to make a sample delivery to oven 0 can only be a practise for the next TEGA oven (3?).
Without knowing the many unknowns of the state of oven 0, any subsequent results are somewhat open to question.

Once more into the breach, dear friends.

[01101001]

Failed again. Not enough delivered to TEGA.

JPL Phoenix Mission News: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil (July 28)

The team tried two methods over the weekend to pick up and deliver a sample of icy soil to a laboratory oven of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA). In both cases, most of the sample stuck inside the lander's inverted scoop. Images returned early Monday showed a small amount of soil reached the screened opening, but other data indicated that not enough had been funneled into the oven for beginning an analysis of the composition.
[...]
[Principal Investigator Peter] Smith said, "While we continue with determining the best way to get an icy sample, we intend to proceed with analyzing dry samples that we already know how to deliver. We are going to move forward with a dry soil sample."

[Paul Fjeld]

Smith said, "While we continue with determining the best way to get an icy sample, we intend to proceed with analyzing dry samples that we already know how to deliver. We are going to move forward with a dry soil sample."

I read that as "we're not as scared of the short circuits as we were." Glass half-full interpretation?

Paul