After five busy months, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has tasted its last morsel of Martian soil and viewed its last Martian landscape. Engineers announced in a November 10 teleconference that the mission is, for all intents and purposes, finished.
The waning Martian day and an inopportune dust storm starved the lander’s solar arrays of sunlight.
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