Photos: Phoenix armed for testing; more landing images

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter could be called the first interplanetary surveillance camera after it snapped spectacular photos of the Phoenix Mars Landing parachuting to the Martian surface.

This photo makes it appear that the Phoenix is above the six-mile-diameter Heimdall crater but it is actually about 12 miles in front of it.

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The DVD on the Phoenix Lander is made of ?: I'm not an expert, but I do recall reading that the DVDs on the Spirit and Opportunity (which include my name along with over three-million-plus others collected from a NASA website prior to launch) w... (Read the rest); Posted by: Namorado_TX Posted on: 05/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use