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Last year, after the Mars Phoenix Lander touched down on the surface of the Red Planet, a series of short, 140-character messages went out over the Internet.
Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, whose mission ended almost exactly a year ago, has been...
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment , or HiRISE, run from the University of Arizona, is releasing two views of the Phoenix Mars Lander , the 2008 NASA mission also run from the UA, which show the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars.
The long-defunct Phoenix Lander is covered in frost on the frozen Martian wasteland, as seen in new images taken from orbit. The NASA lander stopped communicating a year ago after its successful mission.
A sharp-eyed camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Phoenix lander encased in dry ice in the depths of winter on the northern polar plains of Mars.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Here's one I missed in all the election excitement: The HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Phoenix Mars Lander on the frosty northern plains of Mars. Lori Stiles of University Communications tells us: The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured one image of the Phoenix lander on July 30, 2009, and the other on ...
Mars isn't exactly the warmest place during the winter transition, but as the first few rays of sunshine lick at the planet's surface we're able to make out the Phoenix lander shivering under a cover...
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD)- Remember the Phoenix Mars Lander? A camera mounted aboard a Mars orbitor has snapped a picture of the spacecraft sitting on the martian surface.
Image Caption: As the sun began to reappear on the horizon following the deepest, darkest days of north polar winter on Mars, the HiRISE camera imaged the Phoenix landing site on July 30, 2009, (left image) and in Aug. 22, 2009 (right). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. More images are available at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_014393_2485 .
I was just thinking of the Phoenix lander earlier this week, wondering if our little buddy was surviving the Martian winter when, boom: via Twitter came this: @MarsPhoenix "Spring has sprung in the north hemi(sphere) of Mars! Team is waiting for longer daylight hours, around mid-Jan., to 'listen' for our lander." Then, via [...]