A Wider Net

Just a quick note to highlight my current favorite Twitter stream: Tweets from the Mars lander, Phoenix can be found here.
This is a very nice bit of PR from NASA/JPL. As Hollywood fuels our fondness for robots with personality (good or bad) we love this personification of a robot that has successfully traversed millions of miles, landed on the pole of another planet, and has now begin digging in search of ice and other goodies.

I look forward to it’s updates and I find it’s handling of public questions to be more interesting than anything on the NASA and JPL pages. Well done. Now, if only Twitter were one-millionth as reliable as Phoenix…

Photo of today’s first dig in the dirt was snagged from Phoenix Mars Mission page.