Christopher Hedges » Phoenix Mars lander http://christopherhedges.com Attorney serving Northwest Indiana's legal needs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Phoenix Lander Tweets From Mars http://christopherhedges.com/2008/05/31/phoenix-lander-tweets-from-mars/ http://christopherhedges.com/2008/05/31/phoenix-lander-tweets-from-mars/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 15:26:30 +0000 Christopher C. Hedges http://christopherhedges.com/?p=827 a

]]> 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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