December 02, 2008
Future Martian explorers, or perhaps even future inhabitants, might find this mini-DVD attached to the Phoenix Mars Lander. Along with digital images and recorded greetings, the disc also contains 250,000 names of people who signed up to send their names to Mars as a greeting. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Planetary Society)
( Phoenix ) U of A scientists tried to contact the Phoenix Mars Lander over the weekend, but they now believe the solar-powered robot has gone into hibernation due to declining sunlight. Researchers will now focus on analyzing the new information they collected during the Lander's successful five month mission, before it slipped into a winter slumber. That includes data about what humans might have to do to fall asleep on Mars one day too. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports.
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