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Third Phoenix Listening Period Begins Monday

Mars Odyssey file art.
by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2010
From April 5 through April 9, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a third campaign to check whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life after experiencing a Martian arctic winter it was not designed to survive.

The orbiter received no signal from the solar-powered lander during two listening campaigns earlier this year.

While Odyssey listens for Phoenix during 60 overflights next week, the Phoenix site will be in around-the-clock sunshine.

Phoenix completed its three-month mission in the Martian arctic in 2008 and worked for two additional months before energy became insufficient.



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