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Frozen death looms for Phoenix Mars Lander

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After more than four months on the arctic plains of the red planet, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's days are finally numbered.As the sun begins to set for the frigid Martian winter, the spacecraft will lose its energy supply, freeze and eventually fall into a mechanical coma from which it will likely never wake up.
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3 responses // Frozen death looms for Phoenix Mars Lander

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    Poor PML! I wonder if it will have robot hypothermia and do some crazy things right before it's all over. When people get hypothermia, they often become so delirious that they take off all their clothes and act drunk right before they die.

    abbym0308
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    I'm not sure it's been documented in Robots... It's got to get pretty darn cold for the wiring to freeze, I wonder how extreme the Martian winter actually gets?

    rwylie
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    there goes another 2 billion dollars to space junk...

    krush_producions

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