Bird on a Wing

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

 

OMG this is awesome!

At the time of Phoenix's landing all three of the currently working Mars orbiters (MRO, Odyssey, and ESA's Mars Express) passed over the landing spot. MRO took these completely amazing images of Phoenix in the process of landing.

(In the crater shot Phoenix is actually about 20 miles in the foreground of the crater).

After landing: