With winter approaching Mars’ northern hemisphere, and soon to blanket the planet’s Arctic region in months of darkness, the Martian Phoenix Lander will probably meet with a freezing demise, says Barry Goldstein of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It is of course possible, though unlikely, that the probe will manage to reboot itself come springtime though:
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Frost may spell the end of the Mars Phoenix Lander
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