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Everyone celebrate! TEGA Oven 0 doors opened perfectly on sol 53

Emily Lakdawalla

Written by Emily Lakdawalla
July 19, 2008

Hip hip hooray! At last one set of doors on the TEGA instrument has opened correctly. This image just came down from sol 53, documenting the successful attempt to open the doors over TEGA oven 0:

TEGA on sol 53, with Oven 0 doors open

NASA / JPL / UA / Texas A & M

TEGA on sol 53, with Oven 0 doors open
On sol 53 at 13:58 local solar time, the shutters on TEGA's Oven 0 stand open fully -- the first set of doors on TEGA to open properly. The oven should now be ready to accept a sample of ice-rich soil from the Snow White trench.

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