NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scooped up this Martian soil on June 5, 2008 as the first soil sample for delivery to the laboratory on the lander deck. This approximately true-color view of the contents of the scoop on the Robotic Arm comes from combining separate red, green and blue images taken by the Robotic Arm Camera. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute
