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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Mars-a-Dena landing

Congrats to our neighbors at Jet Propulsion Laboratory  who successfully bulls-eyed the Phoenix lander on the arctic plains of Mars Sunday.

The photo was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is the first time that a spacecraft has imaged the final descent of another spacecraft onto a planetary body.  You can see the lander, its parachute, and the lines that attach the two on the brightened photo, with a background of the Martian surface.

(hat tip: Chris Considine)

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Mars-a-Dena landing

Congrats to our neighbors at Jet Propulsion Laboratory  who successfully bulls-eyed the Phoenix lander on the arctic plains of Mars Sunday.

The photo was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is the first time that a spacecraft has imaged the final descent of another spacecraft onto a planetary body.  You can see the lander, its parachute, and the lines that attach the two on the brightened photo, with a background of the Martian surface.

(hat tip: Chris Considine)