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Journey of Phoenix on the Red Planet
November 10, 2008
US space agency NASA has lost contact with its space probe on Mars -- Phoenix Mars Lander -- five months after it landed on the red planet's surface.
NASA said on Monday that seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing enough sunlight for solar arrays to collect power necessary to charge batteries that operate Lander's instruments.
Image: NASA image shows Phoenix Mars Lander's solar panel and the lander's Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop. The image was taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager looking west on the 16th Martian day after landing.
Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
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