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HiRISE sees Phoenix in the Martian spring
planetary.org - 10/30/2009
HiRISE sees Phoenix in the Martian spring
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These Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE images of the defunct Phoenix lander in the early dawn light of northern spring have been out for some time, but no one had accomplished the difficult task of locating the Phoenix hardware in them until this week. I took one look at the grainy-looking ...

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Universe Today:  Northern Spring Approaches on Mars: Will Phoenix Phone Home?

International Space Fellowship:  Spring Approaches on Mars: Will Phoenix Phone Home?

Next Big Future:  Carnival of Space 127

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Northern Spring Approaches on Mars: Will Phoenix Phone Home?
Universe Today — ... on Mars (check out her extensive post here.) Hope springs eternal for many of us as to whether we'll ever hear from Phoenix again, and time will only tell. But its nice to know there were lots of us with Phoenix on the brain this week; kind of a shared experience! See below for more closeups of Phoenix's winter surroundings from UMSF. ...

Spring Approaches on Mars: Will Phoenix Phone Home?
International Space Fellowship — ... took things one step further and made a little “movie” of HiRISE images of Phoenix during the different seasons on Mars ( check out her extensive post here ) Hope springs eternal for many of us as to whether we’ll ever hear from Phoenix again, and time will only tell. But its nice to know there were lots of us with Phoenix on the brain this week; kind of a shared experience! (except everyone else did all the work…) See below for more closeups of Phoenix’s winter surroundings from UMSF. Phil wrote on ...

Carnival of Space 127
Next Big Future — 1. Astroengine has a picture and video of the launch of Ares I-X. 2 The Universe Today had seven pictures of the Ares i-X launch 3. Collect Space reports NASA's Ares I-X to fly on historic hardware with commemorative payload 4. Centauri Dreams takes a look in two posts at the National Research Council report on NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts. Is a new NIAC in the cards? Possibly, but what will it tell us about NASA's overall direction? The other article looks at ...

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