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31

Phoenix Lander Tweets From Mars

Filed Under Phoenix Mars lander, blogging, science 

Spotting the power of Twitter to keep people up-to-date in a concise format, scientists at NASA have programmed the Phoenix Mars lander to send Tweets with updates from the red planet.  Actually, the Phoenix Mars lander is sending the info back to NASA where an employee updates Twitter.  It would be pretty cool if the posts were coming directly from Mars.

The New York Times’ Kenneth Chang writes about the Phoenix Mars lander using Tweeter:

Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

For users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service, the Phoenix Mars lander has been sending pithy news “tweets” to the cellphones and computers of interested “followers.”

Excellent use for this new technology.

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