Phoenix tries to deliver first sample to instrument deck

An image beamed back to Earth from the Phoenix Mars lander early Saturday shows the platform's robotic arm has dumped a load of dirt near the opening of a tiny high-temperature oven, but a sensor inside the instrument did not detect any soil traveling through the narrow portal.

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