Imagery Shows Phoenix Mars Lander Damaged

Engineers have given up attempts to contact NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, after a new image of the spacecraft collected from orbit suggests a solar array has collapsed under the weight of frozen carbon dioxide at its polar landing site. Attempts to contact the spacecraft from the Mars Odyssey orbiter...

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