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And so the wonderful twitter updates from MarsPhoenix have come to an end.

The Mars lander sent her last message on 10 November with the binary for ‘triumph’:

01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3
http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/status/999383469

I can’t help feeling a little sad.

The tone of the updates generated a genuine relationship between the lander and her followers. Her tweets were - in the truest sense of the word - delightful.

Using Twitter in this way was inspired. The audience was ideal and the tweets were perfectly pitched to be informative, geeky, funny and often very cute.

As I tweeted when I first started following her:

I HEART the @MarsPhoenix tweets.. imagining a little wide eyed robot scurrying over the surface pointing, jumping and squealing with glee
http://twitter.com/jennybee/statuses/827012873

Read more about the mission and the social media strategy here: Mars Phoenix Lander Runs Out of Juice.

Oh and in case you were wondering; ‘veni, vidi, fodi’ means ‘I came, I saw, I dug’.

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio broadcast, here’s one of my favourite bits from the TV series… check out those graphics!

There is something beautifully other-worldly about this video stream…

Choose your background soundtrack wisely - mine has to be Lemon Jelly - with the odd NASA voice over. Nice.

nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv