Loss of contact with the @NASAMars Phoenix lander was reported #OTD in 2008 after its successful 157 sols gathering data near Mars's north pole. Like its namesake, this craft rose from the ashes of the Mars Surveyor lander and Mars Polar Lander missions: https://go.nasa.gov/3DRKcbD #NASAhistory http://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1590788890281054246#m
15 Years Ago: Phoenix Mars Lander Launches to the Red Planet
Mars has long fascinated us as a place possibly once hospitable to life. The early robotic missions of the 1960s relayed images of a Moon-like cratered terrain with a forbiddingly cold and thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide.Kelli Mars (NASA)