Or: "pHoenix!" (Sorry. MECA team leader Michael Hecht is responsible for that joke.) There was a teleconference on the status of the Phoenix mission up to sol 30 today. (Like all of these media teleconferences, if you'd like to listen to it after the fact you can do so at JPL's Phoenix Media website.) Here's the news in a nutshell:The wet chemistry lab analyzed its first sample, and reported the pH of the surface soil to be alkaline, at ....