[FPSPACE] MRO's HIRISE images Phoenix, its backshell and parachute, and heat shield

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Wow. Just... wow.

Interesting how there's a big discolored area right around the lander. 
Obviously caused by the landing rockets, but I wonder if the darkening 
is caused by "scorching," or by lighter dust being blown away from a 
darker layer underneath?

Also, one of Phoenix's images caught what looks like the aeroshell or 
heat shield off in the distance:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/raw/SSI/SS001EDN896309909_10D28R1M1.html

D.S. Michaels

-----Original Message-----Wow
From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Sent: Tue, 27 May 2008 1:12 pm
Subject: [FPSPACE] MRO's HIRISE images Phoenix, its backshell and 
parachute, and heat shield

This just gets more and more amazing:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/cut/PSP_008585_2915_cut_a.jpg


In my day, when we landed a probe on Mars, it took days to see the
first images and we didn't see any orbital stuff for years!  And we 
didn't
have
fire so we had to eat potatoes raw - and we liked it that way!


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