NASA Satellite Looks For Response From Dead Mars Craft

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."

Comments

Re:Love the space program

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish we took 50% of the money given to the military and put it into space. We would be at Jupiter right now.

TERRORIST!

Re:Love the space program

[Monkeedude1212]

I don't see how a rocket with a payload of nothing but dollar bills is going to get us any closer to Jupiter.

Once they discover the spice worms

[MRe_nl]

Frank Herbert's prophecies will be seen for what they truly are, and L. Ron shall be proven false, and the Fremen formerly known as Al Qaida will start broadcasting improbable messages from Mars.

Marvin the Martian

[rehtonAesoohC]

The message NASA will receive probably won't be sent from the dead Mars lander... most likely it will be something like:

...going to blow up Earth. It obstructs my view of Venus!