Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University

Pretty good false color image of Martian soil.  No wonder the name of place they got it is  called “Rosy Red”; click the image for the whole picture.  Last word was vibrating the screen was only partially successful in getting the clump-prone soils into the TEGA for sampling and they were going to wait a bit because that has helped to disperse the soil in the past.

They’ll get it figured out after a while.

From the Phoenix site:

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s Surface Stereo Imager took this false color image on Sol 72 (August 7, 2008), the 72nd Martian day after landing. It shows a soil sample from a trench informally called ‘Rosy Red’ after being delivered to a gap between partially opened doors on the lander’s Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.