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Mars lander transmits photos of arctic terrain
    #8446224 - 05/26/08 08:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

PASADENA, Calif. — The first pictures sent back by NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander from the northern arctic plains of Mars show a flat terrain marked by a polygonal pattern of shallow troughs and a few pebbles scattered about.

“I know it looks a little like a parking lot,” said Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona, the mission’s principal investigator, at a news conference four hours after Phoenix’s landing on Sunday, “but it’s a safe place to land.”

But the monotonous landscape is not why Phoenix went to Mars. “I guarantee it. There’s ice under this surface,” Dr. Smith said. “It doesn’t look like it. You don’t see ice, but it’s down there.”

“Follow the water” has been NASA’s mantra for its Mars exploration for more than a decade. Phoenix will be the first space probe to directly touch Martian water when its robotic arm digs down to the ice layer, expected a few inches beneath the surface, and scoops up some for examination.

Phoenix reached its destination after a 422-million-mile journey that lasted almost 10 months.

During the final, tense minutes of the descent, long stretches of quiet in the mission control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were punctuated by cheers and clapping as confirmation of crucial events like the deployment of the parachute were confirmed.

Then, at 7:53 p.m. Eastern time, Richard Kornfeld, the lead communications officer for entry, descent and landing, announced: “Touchdown signal detected.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/space/27mars.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


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