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Phoenix Raw Image
This is a raw, or unprocessed, image taken by the Phoenix lander on Mars, May 25, 2008. This is a screen grab taken from NASA TV.
Link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoen ... index.html
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HURAKAN wrote:Interestingly the pictures show a plain without craters. Lucky place to land.
x-y-no wrote:HURAKAN wrote:Interestingly the pictures show a plain without craters. Lucky place to land.
That was carefully planned. They picked the landing area for its lack of rocks and craters.
That polygon pattern looks like frost heaving to me. That implies ground saturated with water and periodic melting/refreezing. If that turns out to be true it's a pretty exciting result. I would have expected a permanently frozen landscape at that latitude.
x-y-no wrote:HURAKAN wrote:Interestingly the pictures show a plain without craters. Lucky place to land.
That was carefully planned. They picked the landing area for its lack of rocks and craters.
That polygon pattern looks like frost heaving to me. That implies ground saturated with water and periodic melting/refreezing. If that turns out to be true it's a pretty exciting result. I would have expected a permanently frozen landscape at that latitude.
HURAKAN wrote:
Phoenix Makes a Grand Entrance
05.26.08 -- 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.
HURAKAN wrote:fact789 wrote:I wonder if Spirit or Opportunity got anything?
Anything of what?
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