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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 archives. quote 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. /quote (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 /dps |
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