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NASA teleconference on Phoenix’s status this afternoon

NASA will be holding a teleconference this afternoon at 4PM EST to discuss the status of the Phoenix Mars Lander. You might already know that Phoenix has been silent for a week now. Has Phoenix succumbed to the cold of the advancing Martian winter? It was inevitable, but I had hoped she would last longer. [...]

Mars Phoenix Lander on Gizmodo

Mars Phoenix Lander, whom you might remember from our exclusive interview here at Neural Gourmet, has jumped her confines on Twitter and is now blogging here memoirs on Gizmodo. As Martian Winter sets in, Phoenix is approaching the end of her life on Mars and wanted to let the world know about everything she’s seen [...]

Phoenix’s Facebook page disabled

If you were friends with the Phoenix Mars Lander on Facebook, you’ll likely have noticed by now that Phoenix’s Facebook profile was disabled a couple of weeks back. Today Phoenix wrote to inform us that her profile is permanently gone, but all of her friends have been transferred by the Facebook admins to the new [...]

An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part II)

An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part II)

This is the second half of Neural Gourmet’s exclusive interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander. In the first part of our interview we learned a little bit about Phoenix herself; what it’s like to be on Mars, her team, and the very real prospect that Phoenix will not survive the Martian winter. In this segment, [...]

An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part I)

An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part I)

It’s really amazing who, and what, you’ll run across on the social networking site Facebook these days. For instance, a couple of months ago I became friends with the Phoenix Mars Lander. Phoenix, as you might know, is a robotic spacecraft that has been sent to Mars to study the geologic history of water on [...]