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Old February 16th 12, 09:24 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Default HiRise spots landers

Since everyone in this group also reads ssn, this post is redundant but
does fill in the record a bit when visitors from the future scan our
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The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on
NASA's
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that
includes the first color image from orbit showing the three-petal
lander
of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit mission. Spirit drove off that
lander platform in January 2004 and spent most of its six-year working
life in a range of hills about two miles to the east.

Another recent image from HiRISE, taken on Jan. 26, 2012, shows NASA's
Phoenix Mars Lander and its surroundings on far-northern Mars after
that
spacecraft's second Martian arctic winter. Phoenix exceeded its
planned
mission life in 2008, ending its work as solar energy waned during
approach of its first Mars winter.
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(sci.space.news or
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-037 )

Also see
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15038.
and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15039

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