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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 11:00:13 Posted By: Jan
Los Angeles – Nasa’s Phoenix Mars lander has failed to respond to wake-up calls from earth, a sign that it could be near its end.
Mission managers sent pings to Phoenix late on Wednesday and early on Thursday, but it did not respond to an orbiting spacecraft passing overhead. The six-legged lander went into safe mode this week because of low power. Its power supply has been hampered by declining sunlight with the approaching Martian winter.
Engineers will try again to re-establish contact with Phoenix, which has been digging and conducting science experiments in the Martian arctic plains since May.
During its three-month prime mission, the sun stayed above the horizon, allowing Phoenix to dig trenches in the soil and collect ice bits for its various instruments to analyse. Nasa extended the mission in hopes of getting the most science out the spacecraft before it dies.
In recent days, the weather at Phoenix’s landing site has worsened. Overnight temperatures plunged to minus 141 degrees, and daytime temperatures reached only minus 50 – the lowest temperatures so far in the mission. The lander also battled a dust storm, which has drained its energy.
Phoenix landed in a patch of ice in Mars’ high northern latitudes to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life. It has found evidence that the ice might have melted at some point, although the soil is dry. It has yet to find the presence of organic, or carbon-based, compounds that are considered essential for life. – Sapa-AP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20081031064849113C654384