phoenix

Tweeting from Mars

I love this participatory stuff — the Phoenix Mars Lander is now on Twitter: twitter.com/marsphoenix. [Via : @adamengst .] And it has the best bio on the web: I dig Mars. Like last week’s Te Papa squidcam, allowing us to follow the defrosting and examination of the colossal squid, this lets us join in on [...]

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The risks; the rewards: Phoenix Mars Lander movie

I’ve just watched a really exciting video ‘trailer’ of the Phoenix Mars Lander — it came through my NASA podcast feed. Go directly to what may be about a 5 minute, 120Mb Quicktime movie, or click the Multimedia link from NASA – NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course for Mars Landing: In the final seven minutes [...]

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