5:47PM

Mars Phoenix is on Twitter (It is written in the first person though. "In 90 days, when I freeze, that will be the end of the mission.") Spooky Weird!! I wish I had known this hours ago. Thanks to Andy Ihnatko for pointing it out. I should have known he would be blogging about this. He is an uber science geek.

http://twitter.com/marsphoenix

http://twitter.com/Ihnatko

http://ihnatko.com/

The show is talking about the weather team (the Canadians) and the research they did to plan for the cold of the Mars polar region.