NASA announced that the Mars lander was silent and almost certainly dead * Its crew was disbanded and only studies based on the information collected so far will continue.
NASA engineers have not heard from the Phoenix spacecraft for over a week, since November 2, when they managed to get it to briefly resume communication with Earth.
Phoenix, which landed in the polar regions of Mars in May of this year, struggled with the increasing cold and darkness of the approaching winter. NASA says that they will continue to try to contact the spacecraft, but the agency is almost convinced that they will not hear from it again.
"We are terminating the team's operation and declaring the end of the mission at this point," said the project manager on behalf of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Barry Goldstein. However, the information collected will not be lost and will continue to occupy the researchers who worked on the project and other researchers around the world.
However, since we already had surprises from this spacecraft's performance, we will continue to listen. The Martian orbits pass over it about every two hours, we'll turn on the radios and try to call Phoenix to see if she's still alive.
The Phoenix spacecraft was launched from Earth in August 2007 and arrived at Mars on May 25, the day it landed at the northernmost point compared to the landing areas of all spacecraft to date. To land, parachutes were opened and engines were activated that slowed down the descent. The surface mission was planned to last three months, but the spacecraft continued to operate for over five months, during which their robotic arm dug, and the other instruments sniffed, sniffed, and otherwise tested the soil samples.
The main goal of the operation was to touch the water ice that was supposed to be found a few centimeters below the surface. The cameras picked up that ice blocks evaporated before the samples reached the lander. "We were fascinated and worked on it for five months," said the project's principal investigator, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson. "We dug into the ice, we know its depth, and we saw how it changes when it comes in contact with the surface, we saw different types of ice.
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Yoda, oh Yoda,
You will learn to accept criticism without ranting and until then, to keep your heart from stopping (with or without question marks), maybe you should keep your mid-range poetry and below in a drawer.
Your ramblings about Yadom and Vandem are ridiculous. Nedam and Dam are from the same root, in the same body and with the exact same meanings. The only difference between them is time. Nedam - past tense, ydum - future tense.
The comment you received is, therefore, spot on and if you weren't such a bloated nad, you would admit, address, learn and perhaps improve. Except you're the one who couldn't resist posting the "song" for 6 hours and begged for feedback. Did you really think that you would only get applause and chants of age and astonishment? What are you, a new incarnation of H.N. Bialik?
By the way, I'm not one of the regular writers on this site who write anonymously. I just came across this and it upset me that there are farts like you in the world.
All the best and a pleasant heartbeat.
who the f–k is hogin? ah
Hugin,
As a nightingale your beads are beautiful,
But I don't think they are written on such sites,
Your wisdom spreads like a deceived sky,
And I'd like you to talk straight to the point,
May you strive to fulfill your many knowledges,
But I would like to read from your responses only the answers to the questions,
nice evening =)
A. Ben Ner
Your slander about as if there was a (slight) flaw in my poetry infuriates me (slight)
It's not because envy is speaking from your throat or you didn't really understand what the poet meant.
Stillness - cessation of activity, clinical death, only the heart stopped beating but life remained in the other organs.
There is hope here, here the dawn will rise and she will return and dance in the form of Mars with new hope, and singing in the heart!
However
Vidum - may God have mercy on him, Pipen went, Kaput. He became completely still.
Hope is lost.
But to hear the audience's request as it is expressed in the lyrical cry of our little brother:-
"Do not let your heart rest"
I understand that the commenters want the last stanza to express reconciliation, a new revival.
Therefore I have no choice left and we will end the third stanza with a question mark:-
When her heart stopped
Vidom??
Good night
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Welcome back Yanon
Maybe you will comfort my heart with an anthem?
Ignite a renewed flame in me
Light my way to a renewed being
A choice hit that elevates style?
Welcome back Yanon
Maybe you'll refresh my songs at the end
You will flood me with a spiced ember
Give me a word for a spoken animal
Will you be excited about choosing a top scholar?
Welcome back Yanon.
I'm back
Douglas Adams wrote many years ago about a spaceship that died
(from depression put into her by a robot) So what's new here?
Every scientist is doppelganger or not
Hidden is an abrasive boy who loves his own
and in his marvelous sight and superior to his understanding
His heart will rise and his understanding will overflow
It is possible to improve his language and his understanding will be sharpened
And in a burst of emotions his being will experience
Maybe he will go and write because he will be very upset
The amazing and the hidden will make him hungry for more
Who will connect the visible and the hidden in his own way
Who will write knowingly this is his understanding
For the sake of his mind and for his light to spread in him
I blessed him above and many others like him.
Thank you, I couldn't help but feel that way reading the song Farewell to Phoenix.
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Since NASA is just cooking up the next drama for us... the sun will rise and the battery will charge and the wonder and wonder of this "Hummer" will come to life (with a parenthetical note: this is the American way of cars - big and wasteful. If Israeli scientists had developed this vehicle it would still be running around there and Buries us all'.)
So I suggest an optimistic ending:
"Do not let your heart rest,
Michael, when are you going to shut up?"
To Judah
The work is indeed moving and heart-wrenching, but, exempt from any criticism, it would be unthinkable in our places, so please allow me to illuminate, with all due humility, because in my opinion there was a slight flaw, in the ending of the poem: "………..
when her heart is still,
Vidom"
You are using here twice in the same short sentence, two words that are from the same linguistic root, "Ndam" and "Yadom" and have the same meaning. I think it is better to expand the linguistic diversity by slightly changing the wording.
For example: "When the heart stopped... from yesterday"
Or for example: "When the heart stops...oh how terrible it is"
I am sure you will disagree with me.
you at frrindly
I humbly thank all my cosmic poetry lovers.
And little Hugin, you surely understand that the melancholy piece of music you sent me was the inspiration for this song.
Good Day
Sabdarmish Yehuda
The song is great.
Did Yehuda write a requiem for his Hogin's heart..there from the distance of a spiritual being and its likeness?
Yehuda:
Although you made it very difficult for me to praise you, I must point out that the work is really beautiful.
No one will comment on the piece?
say something
Hugin?, at least you?
Requiem for Phoenix
She walked on the red star alone
In the desert, looking for only water
The arrival time asks itself
And are they so black?
In Wallis Marineris the shadows lengthened
And the sun set far away
Slowly, slowly, here, her powers are tools
Is this a kiss of death?
Above, in the distance, in the heights of Olympus
There, in the Red Star
Deimos and Phobos slowly shone
when her heart is still,
Vidom.
RIP
It was exciting and it is still exciting to know that out there, in outer space and on another planet, we have a robot that knows how to communicate and pass information to us. This world is strange and it's getting stranger and stranger by the minute. Thanks to the architects of the project for the tremendous contribution to humanity.
Ami Bachar