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Camera on Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing

JPL/NASA/University of Arizona News Release: 2008-083 for May 26, 2008
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander’s successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25th.
The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter marks the first time ever one spacecraft has photographed another one in the act of landing on Mars.
Meanwhile, scientists pored over initial images from Phoenix , the first ever taken from the surface of Mars’ polar regions.
“We can see cracks in the troughs that make us think [...]

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