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Phoenix Lander

This view is a polar projection that combines more than 500 exposures taken by the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander and projects them as if looking down from above.

 

The black circle on the spacecraft is where the camera itself is mounted on the lander, out of view in images taken by the camera. North is toward the top of the image. The lander's meteorology mast extends above the southwest horizon and is topped by the telltale wind gauge.

 

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona/Texas A&M University

Image Number: PIA11723

Date: June 5, 2008

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