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The robotic arm of Mars Lander touches soil

2008-06-02 13:56:38 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Technology News)

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Tucson, Arizona (CaymanMama.com) — CNN reported that a new robot of NASA has reached Mars and for first time touched the soil, leaving behind an amazing footprint like impression. Just after a week after the landing of the craft The Phoenix Mars Lander’s robotic arm was doing a test run. CNN reported, that the spaceship that is its own laboratory as well, will soon begin scooping up ice and soil and doing tests on them.

NASA showed some sharp pictures of what seems to be ice exposed in the lander. The main goal of the mission is basically to examine for the evidence of the organic compounds, which are chemical elements or the building blocks of life. The spaceship is equipped by a backhoe like robotic arm, which would dig in the ground and recover the samples for examining in the small laboratories of lander’s.

Lander was sent on the northern region of Mar in hope of getting ice-covered water, but the depth of the frozen water is unidentified.
Nevertheless, the robot arm most probably will start its initial digging operation after few more days of examining. Once the robot arm will start digging, the ice and dirt it scoops up would be deposited in various miniature ovens to be heated and the measuring equipments will examine the resulting gases.



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