Frozen Death Looms for Phoenix Mars Lander# Aviation - 航空航天
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By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 08 October 2008
06:55 am ET
After more than four months on the arctic plains of the red planet, NASA's
Phoenix Mars Lander's days are finally numbered.As the sun begins to set for
the frigid Martian winter, the spacecraft will lose its energy supply,
freeze and eventually fall into a mechanical coma from which it will likely
never wake up.
Phoenix's mission has been to dig up samples of Martian dirt and the
subsurface layer of rock-hard water ice at its l
Senior Writer
posted: 08 October 2008
06:55 am ET
After more than four months on the arctic plains of the red planet, NASA's
Phoenix Mars Lander's days are finally numbered.As the sun begins to set for
the frigid Martian winter, the spacecraft will lose its energy supply,
freeze and eventually fall into a mechanical coma from which it will likely
never wake up.
Phoenix's mission has been to dig up samples of Martian dirt and the
subsurface layer of rock-hard water ice at its l
