Phoenix Suffers Unknown Problem with Sample Analysis Oven

[Fraser]

The first sample for scientific analysis dug from the surface of the Mars has failed to make it to the onboard oven used to test for organic compounds and water. Mission scientists have been overviewing a picture taken by the lander after Phoenix's 8-foot long robotic arm dropped the sample on-target, but a sensor inside [...]

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[trinitree88]

The first sample for scientific analysis dug from the surface of the Mars has failed to make it to the onboard oven used to test for organic compounds and water. Mission scientists have been overviewing a picture taken by the lander after Phoenix's 8-foot long robotic arm dropped the sample on-target, but a sensor inside [...]

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Fraser. now here's a golden opportunity for Pillsbury to get some good press. They offer to pay say $ 25,000 to help computer debug the workings of the oven. Their jingle from TV Land..."Nothing says loving like something from the oven, and Pillsbury says it best."...coupled with some ink in the media for their charity ought to bring in a few bucks for their products..NO? pete

maybe I missed my calling here....writing TOEs when I could be making moola drawing up idiot ideas for promoters...(they did commercialize my idiot idea for putting your initials on a grain of sand with a laser and then hunting your grain in the beach)...but then again leave it to Einstein and Szilard to make a refrigerator that uses propane to make ice in the jungle...( Harrison Ford..Mosquito Coast")