A handout image dated 01 June 2008 and made available 02 June 2008 by NASA from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm Camera (RAC) showing material from the Martian surface captured by the Robotic Arm (RA) scoop during its first test dig and dump on the seventh Martian day of the mission, or Sol.

Scientists speculate that the white patches on the right side of the image could possibly be ice or salts that precipitated into the soil. Scientists also speculate that this white material is probably the same material seen in previous images from under the lander in which an upper surface of an ice table was observed.

The color for this image was acquired by illuminating the RA scoop with a set of red, green, and blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs).  EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute 

Space shuttle Discovery sits on launch pad 39-A (L)  during the morning sunrise at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 30 May 2008. The Rotating Service Structure (RSS) is scheduled to rollback into the lock position, 30 May 2008 with liftoff of Discovery scheduled for no earlier than 31 May 2008 at 5:02 P.M. EDT.  EPA/GARY I ROTHSTEIN