[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2454  

NASA Orbiter Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
January 20, 2010

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for
the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from
the lander. Nineteen more listening overflights are planned this week,
and additional attempts in February and March.

The attempts are being made because of the unlikely scenario that
Phoenix has survived Martian arctic winter conditions the spacecraft was
never designed to withstand.

Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated successfully about
two months longer than its planned three-month mission near the Martian
north polar region.

Guy Webster, 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

2010-020