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Goodbye Mars Phoenix
While we might have lost contact with the Mars Phoenix spacecraft (effectively ending the mission) there is an interview with Veronica McGregor, the “voice” of the MarsPhoenx’s Twitter feed that had over 39,000 followers.
McGregor explains:
We didn’t advertise it anywhere other than a few space blogs and space forums. I really didn’t think anybody else would care too much. Then, very interestingly, it started popping up on blogs everywhere, and people started mentioning it and saying, oh, “how cool is this?” Then Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter, mentioned on his feed that he was going to follow it, because he wanted to see how the landing would go, and then Wired picked up on it, and so by the time we landed, we had about 3,000 people following it. It was more than I expected.
For more, go read the rest of the interview: Interview @MarsPhoenix. You can also check out the McGregor’s Mars Phoenix guest blogging at Gizmodo. Of course, there is also the NASA mission page and the Phoenix Mars Mission home.
— michael | November 14, 2008 04:11 PM | I found it online
