now we are grabbg a sample with this group, bring it over to the tega. thus tega door opens. we start the martian barbecue and open blight door and start doing this laser ranging exriment. >> [inaudible] >> thether thing ian to point out is this picture right he. hopefully you have already seen it especially since we are all mars aficionados'. this was taken a few minutes before it landed on the surface. this was taken by orbit by the high rise orbit so the mars recoaissance orbiter is in orbit around mars that is a great camera on board called high rise also run at the university of ariza and weeks in advance the plan this. fireut where phoenix will be entering the martian atmosphere and commanded the camera to go ahead and try to take pictures as it was landing and certainly that would have been important that we had a failure. fortunately we didn't put it created this of some image. here's the lander at the bottom, this is the parachute and you can almost make out the parachute lines so this is the first time we had ever done this are around another planet. it was pretty n

here's the tega right here. you can see the doors were opened and we just dumped everything right on top of it. so tega, they said great we got a sample waiting for us. they commanded the tega to start vibrating the screen. there's screens over each one of these cell doors so you only let small particles into the oven and they were commanded to shake. unfortunately they were designed to shake up and down which when you have a large mass load like this wouldn't have been efficient but it would be better if it was side-to-side. they looked in the oven and nothing there and still didn't see anything. it actually took several days. we didn't get the sample into tega until sol 16. so we delivered it so sol 12 and it took until sol 16. this material is a lot different than what we expected to be. during the all the simulations on the ground and using the tega and the robotic arm we tried different mars soils and we tried out as salts and none of this was as cohesive as this material could be. this stuff stuck together