Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Phoenix On Mars



Phoenix made a successful landing on Mars over the weekend . here are some cool NASA shots. In the first
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on May 25, 2008. This is the first time that a spacecraft has imaged the final descent of another spacecraft onto a planetary body. The second is one of the first shots from the Lander of the artic area of mars where it landed.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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