Midnight Sun on Mars

This panorama mosaic of images was taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This mosaic documents the midnight sun during several days of the mission.

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Phoenix Sol 020

Another RGB composite taken from Sol 020 images... that stuff has got to be ice!

Phoenix ready to scoop.

Here's my RGB composite (using synthetic green) of the Phoenix scoop taken on Sol 11.

B&W images; Credit: NASA / JPL / UA

Phoenix Mars lander... Ice?

Here's a view from underneath the Phoenix lander... is this area disturbed by the landers thrusters ice?
It does look odd.
Credit NASA

Here's the parachute picture in context... got to be APOD

... along with this image.

Credit HiRise

Phoenix Mars lander being imaged by MRO on the way down.

Looks like it worked :-)

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Enhanced image by Emily Lakdawalla

Credit: NASA / JPL / U. Arizona / Color composite by Emily Lakdawalla

Postcard from Phoenix Mars lander.

This false colour postcard image, one of the first captured by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars. The flat landscape is strewn with tiny pebbles and shows polygonal cracking, a pattern seen widely in Martian high latitudes and also observed in permafrost terrains on Earth. The polygonal cracking is believed to have resulted from seasonal freezing and thawing of surface ice.





















The B&W image below was acquired at the Phoenix landing site on day 1 of the mission on the surface of Mars, or Sol 0, after the May 25, 2008, landing. The surface stereo imager left acquired this image at 17:07:41 local solar time.


Stereo anaglyph produced my me.

... or the Stereo card version, where you cross your eyes, which I prefer.
Photos & text credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Phoenix Mars landing may be imaged by MRO.

Interesting article from LiveScience.com about the up-and-coming Phoenix landing.

NASA/JPL-Calech/University of Arizona