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NASA Satellite Looks For Response From Dead Mars Craft

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-dead-jim dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will next week make a number of passes over the presumed dead Phoenix Mars Lander on the surface of the planet and listen for what the space agency called possible, though improbable, radio transmissions. Odyssey will pass over the Phoenix landing site about 10 times this month and two longer listening tries in February and March trying to determine if the craft survived Martian winter and try to lock onto a signal and gain information about the lander’s status."

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  1. Re:What is the point in studying Mars? by sexconker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What’s so interesting about the top of Mt. Everest, that a couple hundred people have died trying to reach it?

    I didn't pay taxes for dipshits to go off and die on a mountain.

    Your argument fails.
    We don't explore space for the thrill of it.
    We explore space to get off this shitty rock.

    Mars may not be hospitable to us, but we sure as fuck could still establish a colony there for all kinds of scientific research geared toward getting us to a new hospitable planet.

    Or maybe Mars has oil.