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Mars Lander
Mars Lander Shuts Down
November 11, 2008 | NASA

“NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot’s arctic landing site is not providing enough sunlight for the solar arrays to collect the power necessary to charge batteries that operate the lander’s instruments.” Quoted from the NASA release.


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