TEGA - Round 2 |
TEGA - Round 2 |
Jul 19 2008, 12:04 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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 |
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Oct 18 2008, 08:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
That's some good news at least. No mention where the soil was from, though. The article also mentions that six of the ovens have been used so far. Therefore there has been one succesful delivery between the last teleconf and this sample acquisition. Likely an OFB sample delivery was finally succesful?
I may be judging the goals of the TEGA without full information, but I feel that the instrument will have failed unless they manage to sample the ice completely. This is seperate from the actual mission goals, which always are set very conservatively for the equipment and the luck of the draw in the actual landing site. The mission goals would have been satisfied if Phoenix had landed in a completely dry place, with no ice at all. Considering that they have landed in a place with obvious and abundant ice within easy access, it will be a huge disappointment if that ice isn't analysed properly. Phoenix was extensively tested to make sure that all the critical gremlins in the landing process were found. The same dilligence should be applied on the most important science instruments of the mission. This doesn't help Phoenix at the moment, but must be taken into consideration for complex future instruments with expected mission times many times the Phoenix prime mission. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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