Phoenix Scoop Inverted Showing Rasp

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University, Posted on: Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 06:28 CDT Download full size image

This image taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 49, or the 49th Martian day of the mission (July 14, 2008), shows the silver colored rasp protruding from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm scoop. The scoop is inverted and the rasp is pointing up.

Shown with its forks pointing toward the ground is the thermal and electrical conductivity probe, at the lower right. The Robotic Arm Camera is pointed toward the ground.

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