NASA MISSION UPDATE
One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander’s Robotic Arm.
The practice scoop was emptied onto a designated dump area on the ground after the Robotic Arm Camera photographed the soil inside the scoop. The Phoenix team plans to have the arm deliver its next scoopful, later this week, to an instrument that heats and sniffs the sample to identify ingredients.
A glint of bright material appears in the scooped up soil and in the hole from which it came. “That bright material might be ice or salt. We’re eager to do testing of the next three surface samples collected nearby to learn more about it,” said Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis, Phoenix co-investigator for the Robotic Arm.
The camera on the arm examined the lander’s first scoop of Martian soil. “The camera has its own red, green and blue lights, and we combine separate images taken with different illumination to create color images,” said the University of Arizona’s Pat Woida, senior engineer on the Phoenix team.
Why is the soil in color but all the outside pictures are black and white. I call b-sh*t. For 1 billion dollars the HD cameras better work or I say we lay them all off and outsource them to India.
It’s high time we call for a full investigation into NASA. They can’t stop lying. I honestly have never see clean data from NASA. It’s all edited for for view by us low life people who pay they salaries.
Above top secret means… I’m ripping you off and you don’t even know it!
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