Monday, November 17, 2008

BRRRRR!

That's cold! (Telegraph UK)

Some time earlier this month, Nasa's Phoenix Lander slipped into a cold-induced
coma in the Arctic wastes of the Red Planet. With the onset of winter, the Sun
dropped low in the sky, and the temperature fell to -1,300C at night.

Apparently the Phoenix Lander's (see here, here and here) greatest contribution to science had nothing to do with Mars; it has totally rewritten everything we thought we knew about thermodynamics. No wonder the poor thing shut down.

2 comments:

  1. Hey, I didn't see another contact, but just wanted to let you know, the CPD and ODOT visited even some previously unvisited camps in the Home Depot area this morning. I wrote I story for tomorrow's alchemist.. Please contact me with contact info (esp gmail or another IM) if you'd like to see/perhaps blog it..

    taosk8r (at) gmail.com
    ^ and all IMs and myspace

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  2. Maybe it's a Spinal Tap thing. This cold goes to 11.

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