Goodbye Mars Phoenix … We will miss you.
Today MarsPhoenix (on Twitter) left us with a final message :
01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000
For those non-geeks out there, that is binary for “Triumph”. The mission was a triumph indeed and through social network sites like Twitter and Plurk, we got to follow the mission and bond emotionally with a lonely lander on a far away planet.
We learned much from our far away friend, and many of us are sad to see him go. For me Dr. Suess said it best :
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Indeed. Fare thee well, my robotic friend.