[meteorite-list] Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Mon Nov 10 22:56:43 EST 2008
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:40:21 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications
>after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal
>decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not
>providing enough sunlight for the solar arrays to collect the power
>necessary to charge batteries that operate the lander's instruments.
Then there was an odd thermal reading, and suddenly communications resumed!
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