The Phoenix has landed
Quite some time ago, really. NASA‘s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars roughly 15 hours ago and will spend the next three months or so on that planet to scout about for traces of frozen water.
With radio signals taking more than 15 minutes to reach earth, this little dude is really on his own! Most interesting is the use of Twitter by the project team at the University of Arizona and NASA. Follow the progress of the Phoenix on Mars at its very own Twitter page – currently a world record for the most remote entity to utilize such a web service. All the project team must hope for is that the Phoenix survives the three months. The earth-boundTwitter has already crashed…
The official mission page is here.
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