The news of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission ending captured attention world-wide. The general tone, as covered by Knight Science Journalism Tracker is one of sentimental mourning of the loss of a good friend. [right, artist's rendition. Credit, NASA]
Here are their links to a variety of reports:
- Reuters Dan Whitcomb
- AP Alicia Chang
- NYTimes Kenneth Chang with a six word lead - The Phoenix Mars Lander is dead.
- Computerworld Heather Havenstein puts the news in twitter context - including a link at Gizmodo to the sentimental so-called farewell transmission
- NPR Joe Palca
- Los Angeles Times John Johnson Jr. relays word that the mood is Irish wake, not funeral.
- USA Today Dan Vergano says the lander is at the end of the road (metaphorically anyway as it has no mobility) .
- Register Lewis Page introduces a Britishism new to The Tracker with word that the lander “has probably carked it.”
- Bloomberg Demian McLean
- Nat’l Geographic Anne Minard reminds us that a second life may beckon, come Spring on Mars, via the lander’s longshot Lazarus mode.
- San Francisco Chronicle David Perlman leads with “As it must to all spacecraft….”
- Science News Laura Sanders says it has “tasted its last morsel…”
- AFP
- Wired News Alexis Madrigal includes that the tweeted “voice” of the lander’s last message was, in binary talk: “01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3″.>
- ……………… and plenty more.