Phoenix Not Responding to Communications

The Phoenix Lander is not responding to attempts to communicate with it. Earlier it was reported that Phoenix had gone into safe mode. The lander experienced a low-power fault in the electrical system due to the reduction of solar-electric power to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, as well as extremely cold weather. Engineers for the mission were able to send a command to restart a battery that had shut off, and were hopeful that further communications would resume without incident. However, Phoenix did not respond to one of the Mars orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

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