Cool pix from Mars
Posted on May 26, 2008
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Amazing: the remarkable photo above shows NASA’s Phoenix lander suspended from its parachute shortly before landing. The picture was taken with a telephoto imager (aka the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The photo on left is one of Phoenix’s first snaps of its new home in Mars’ very chilly north polar zone. I continue to be fascinated by robot photos from other worlds…
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The unenhanced photo actually looks fine if the gamma is increased. Copy the photos on spaceflightnow.com.
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