I thought it took 5 days for TEGA to get results on a sample. It's now getting close to two weeks since a sample was delivered.
From the June 11th, audio conference:
Audio Recording of Phoenix Media Telecon for June 11, 2008.
"Jeremy Manier: Hi. Thanks a lot. Uh, so Bill, uh, w-what, uh, what then will be the schedule with, uh, with the TEGA now? Uh, what -- when do you expect to be, uh, seeing the first, uh, things back? And how-how long is it really -- is it really going to take to, uh, to get some first gleanings from, uh, that analysis?
"Bill Boynton: Well, we-we're hopeful that sometime in the next few days, we will close the oven and begin the analysis process. Now, the analysis process, uh, really takes about, uh, five days. We have, uh, four days of heating the samples to different temperature limits and an intervening day to, uh, actually bake out the mass spectrometer to remove any, uh, water vapor that we might have gotten from an earlier day's run.
So it's probably a weeklong process once we begin. Uh, by the end of that time, we have -- should have some preliminary ideas of what we're seeing. Uh, the instrument's really designed to get very quantitative results. And it's likely to be, uh, several weeks after that before we really have definitive, uh, scientific numbers. But we-we should have a pretty good idea somewhere on the order of a week or so after we begin."
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/podcast-phx20080611.php
However, later on Peter Smith says the analysis will begin 2 days later which would have been June 13th. So it should be 11 days since the analysis should have begun.
Bob Clark
Space/Science » in reply to "Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice."
TEGA results?
The whole thread (34 posts)
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- "Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice."
- Why couldn't the disappearing white matter be CO2?
- re: Why couldn't the disappearing white matter be CO2?
- re: Why couldn't the disappearing white matter be CO2?
- re: Why couldn't the disappearing white matter be CO2?
- I'm not sure it couldn't. (n/t)
- We need a probe with a "nose."
