Phoenix Mars Lander on Twitter

It’s already old news that the Phoenix Mars Lander landed on Mars back on May 28th. But did you know it’s communicating via Twitter?

How incredibly clever! I love how it “talks” in first person. :)

A few of my favs:

• MarsPhoenix Here’s a great picture of my deployed arm with the scoop on the end: http://tinyurl.com/3s354p I can’t wait to dig in the dirt next week. 10:14 PM May 29, 2008
• MarsPhoenix Looking forward to an exciting day on Mars; My first dig in the dirt! Team calls this a “dig and dump” test of my robotic arm and scoop. 09:05 AM June 01, 2008
• MarsPhoenix @charmcitygavin TEGA “cooks” soil samples until they emit gasses that I can “sniff” to learn what they are. I just hope they smell good :) 04:12 PM June 03, 2008
• MarsPhoenix I’m learning new tricks! Sprinkle practice went great, see www.nasa.gov/phoenix Used small motor on back of scoop to shake and break soil. 10:37 AM June 10, 2008

Twitter updated with Facebook and Aggregating on Goobertech

Got all that? It took a fair amount of effort to make it all come together.

If you’re uninformed, Twitter is a social networking site with the sole purpose of creating a list of status updates (like Facebook), or maybe some of you are still stuck with Myspace’s version. Anyway — the potential for niftiness with Twitter exceeds all and so I’ve begun my plunge into its depths.

Here are the steps I took: read more »