Orbiter's HiRISE Camera Saw Phoenix Heat Shield in Freefall on Landing Day

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The HiRISE camera aboard NASAacutes Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Phoenix Mars Lander its parachute and heat shield in an image all before Phoenix touched down on May 25 2008. (NASAJPL-CaltechUniversity of Arizona)
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Phoenix Mars Lander, its parachute and heat shield in an image, all before Phoenix touched down on May 25, 2008. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

Scientists running the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, known as HiRISE, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have processed more details in an amazing image their camera captured as the Phoenix spacecraft descended through Mars' atmosphere during its landing on May 25, 2008.


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