Great stars don't die, they just fade away.
It's been almost two months since NASA lost contact with the Phoenix Mars Lander, which had been studying icy soils near the red planet's north pole.
The lander's surface stereo imager made a mosaic to show the craft from a few feet in the air—that black spot is where the camera is mounted.
—Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
As summer moved into fall, sunlight began to fade and temperatures dropped too far for the lander to keep up operations, bringing the just over five-month mission to a nominal end.
One thing that's been made clear is that 2008 was the summer of the Phoenix.
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