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24 May 2010
New Image Shows Phoenix Lander's Solar Panel is Missing
The Phoenix lander will not be phoning home. A new image of Phoenix taken this month by the HiRISE camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows signs of severe ice damage to the lander's solar panels, with one panel appearing to be completely gone. The Phoenix team [...]
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17 May 2010
Last Chance for Phoenix to Call Home Starts Today
Starting today, the Mars Odyssey orbiter will be listening once again for the Phoenix Mars Lander, lending an ear to hear if Phoenix has come back to life. Until May 21,Odyssey will listen for a signal from Phoenix during 61 flights over the lander's site on Mars' northern arctic region. Earlier attempts to detect [...]
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16 February 2010
Phoenix Phone Home! Teams Still Attempting Contact with Mars Lander
No word yet from the Phoenix Mars Lander and, really, mission managers don't expect to hear from the lander. But that doesn't mean they aren't trying. Mission managers are currently attempting to make contact, and another — and final — series of attempts may occur next month. “We haven’t heard a peep since [...]
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21 January 2010
No Word Yet From Phoenix; Spirit's Days May be Numbered
Not a peep yet from the Phoenix lander. The Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed all 30 relay overflights of the Phoenix landing site that were scheduled for Jan. 18 to 21, and heard nothing from the lander. Additional listening campaigns will be conducted in February and March. NASA has said repeatedly that hearing from [...]
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11 January 2010
Odyssey to Start Listening for Phoenix Lander
Caption: The Phoenix Mars Lander, its backshell and its heatshield are visible within this enhanced-color image of the Phoenix landing site taken on Jan. 6, 2010 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Listen up, all you Phoenix lander fans! Beginning Jan. [...]
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29 October 2009
Northern Spring Approaches on Mars: Will Phoenix Phone Home?
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 [...]
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16 September 2009
Phoenix's Telltale Tells All About Winds and Weather on Mars
On board the plucky little Phoenix Mars lander was an even pluckier and littler device called the Telltale. It measured, for the first time, wind speeds and directions at the Mars polar region. Scientists have now been able to summarize the results from the Telltale, and presented their findings at the European Planetary [...]
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02 July 2009
Perchlorates and Water Make for Potential Habitable Environment on Mars
Scientists say that the Arctic region studied by Phoenix lander may be a favorable environment for microbes. Just-right chemistry and periods where thin films of liquid water form on the surface could make for a habitable setting. "Not only did we find water ice, as expected, but the soil chemistry and minerals we [...]
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02 July 2009
Phoenix Lander Team: It Snows at Night on Mars
It snows on Mars. This occurs, at least in the northern arctic region where the Phoenix lander set up camp in 2008. Science teams from Phoenix were able to observe water-ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere and precipitation that fell to the ground at night and sublimate into water in the morning. [...]
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