FCW Insider: Twittering the Mars lander

I've been a huge fan of the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, ever since I got to meet Cornell University Professor Steven Squyres at one of 1105 GovInfo's Government Leadership Summits a few years ago. Squyres, who has gone on to write a about the rovers, led the team... and he, frankly, has an infectious energy that caused me to be interested in the program... and Mars. (See a ... including a .So I have also been following the Mars Phoenix.No doubt last week, you read that the is using the micro-blogging Web site Twitter. ... and the Washington Post featured a .Twitter, for those of you who don't know, is a micro-blogging site. The site asks the question, "What are you doing?" and... people say what they are doing. Reading an interesting piece somewhere that you'd share with your friends? Twitter it. (The good folks who create the Plain English Guides have an ... and you can follow me at .)Anyway, the real point here -- the Phoenix found what they believe is ice... and I read about it on .