Posted on behalf of Amber Dance The Phoenix spacecraft, having collected evidence for water and ice on the Red Planet, is going for broke. NASA extended its mission today, allowing it to keep up its experiments until the diminishing sunlight, as Mars heads into winter, doesn’t provide enough power and renders it a mere weather station. But unlike the mythical bird, Phoenix is unlikely to rise again when winter’s over. “The little lander is terminal,” said Doug McCuistion, director of the M