As the sun began to reappear on the horizon following the deepest, darkest days of north polar winter on Mars, the HiRISE camera imaged the Phoenix landing site on July 30, 2009, (left image) and ...

But the darker image was most recently echoed in a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, published in the fall by Harper’s Magazine, depicting Frost as a repellent old man rebutting a female ...