NASA's Phoenix Lander Lives on Through Data Trove

摘要

Data collected by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander before it went silent for good on the red planet are providing valuable insight for a new study on the interactions between the martian dirt and atmosphere.rnNASA's Phoenix lander has been sitting idle in the martian arctic since November 2008, when engineers lost the ability to contact the craft after its solar power supplies were depleted by the martian winter. Photographs of the Phoenix lander from spacecraft orbiting Mars showed extensive damage to its solar arrays.