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1..."If there's enough energy, we will try to get readings from the conductivity probe that has been inserted into the soil, and possibly some images to assess frost buildup."

2...The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, with project management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver.

3...The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by JPL, is back in the image business.

4...The communication reinforced a diagnosis that the spacecraft is in a precautionary mode triggered by low energy.

5...The new images are taken in thermal-infrared light show the hexagon extends much deeper down into the atmosphere than previously expected, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) below the cloud tops.