SCIENCE BUZZ: NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has finished its mission and powered down, and science fans will mourn its passing. As fall turns to winter on the Martian surface, the Lander will be buried in carbon dioxide ice as temperatures plummet. Its batteries are dead and the robot, which discovered the first proof of ice on Mars, has stopped transmitting. Farewell, sweet prince.

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1. Phoenix Mars Lander’s Farewell Transmission From Mars
2. Phoenix Mars Lander’s Goodbye Series on Gizmodo
3. MarsPhoenix’s Final Twitter
4. Nasa Holds An Irish Wake for the Mars Phoenix Lander
5. Phoenix Mars Mission - It’s Over

It’s Phoenix as you’ve never seen her before, fully naked and completely see-through! NASA must have released these after a rather rough break-up, because sharing your private collection of Space Porn is most undoubtedly the ultimate revenge act.

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1. Naked Martian Robot
2. NASA Image of the Day

SCIENCE BUZZ: The NASA Phoenix Mars mission says they’ve found proof of water on the Red Planet. Small white patches that the Phoenix lander discovered when digging into the Martian soil earlier this week have shrunk, and bits of debris in the trench have disappeared, which NASA says could only mean they were ice.

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1. NASA: Disappearing Chunks Must Have Been Ice
2. Watch the Disappearing Ice!
3. Phoenix Twitter: w00t!!! Best day ever!!
4. A Step Towards Discovering Whether Mars Was Habitable
5. It MUST Be Ice

NASA’s Mars rover Spirit (from 2005) sent back a nice sunset picture from the Red Planet. It looks like parts of Nevada, only minus the clouds, vegetation, or casino on the horizon.

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The Best Links:

1. Official NASA Images
2. Animation of the Pheonix Lander’s Landing
3. Mars Pheonix on BuzzFeed