Sol 90+, Extended mission |
Sol 90+, Extended mission |
Aug 25 2008, 11:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Sep 8 2008, 10:00 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Did anybody else notice this? I didn't see it until just this morning. Looks like TEGA has suffered some kind of anomaly. It's not clear to me from the story if they're going to be able to get what they want to get out of an ice-rich sample or not now. It's New Scientist, so take it with a grain of salt.
Mars lander to squirrel away soil in advance of winter --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 9 2008, 12:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
I didn't see it until just this morning. Looks like TEGA has suffered some kind of anomaly. It's not clear to me from the story if they're going to be able to get what they want to get out of an ice-rich sample or not now. It's New Scientist, so take it with a grain of salt.[ --Emily my guess is this anomoly is the gas flow problem reported in Aug 31 press release. hopefully not a new problem. ken http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/08_29_pr.php "The team is currently working to diagnose an intermittent interference that has become apparent in the path for gases generated by heating a soil sample in the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer to reach the instrument's mass spectrometer. Vapors from all samples baked to high temperatures have reached the mass spectrometer so far, however data has shown that the gas flow has been erratic, which is puzzling the scientists." |
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