New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers
Near the lower left corner
of this view is the three-petal lander platform that NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit drove off in January 2004. Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona› Full image and caption
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February 08, 2012
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.
MORE: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-037&cid=release_2012-037&msource=12037&tr=y&auid=10267838
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