Arizona Republic: Given up for dead, sure but “hey, it is called Phoenix.”
Tucson’s University of Arizona is the operational home for NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, the robot near the Red Planet’s north pole that presumably is now encased in dry ice and permanently frozen into so much scrap metal, plastic, and silicon. But today’s Arizona Daily Star has from reporter Tom Beal a tidy report on the hopes, at the headquarters office not far from campus, that with sunlight returning the machine’s radio might turn back on.
A few other outlets have relayed such wishes:
- Arizona Republic – Anne Ryman (Jan 5): NASA hopes to revive powerless Phoenix Mars Lander.
- Space.com – Leonard David (Dec. 16) Mars lander just might rise from the dead ;
- Charlie Petit
