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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Science HiRISE Spots Phoenix!
Posted by Jim Nintzel on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:42 PM
- NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Here's one I missed in all the election excitement: The HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Phoenix Mars Lander on the frosty northern plains of Mars.
Lori Stiles of University Communications tells us:
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured one image of the Phoenix lander on July 30, 2009, and the other on Aug. 22, 2009. That's when the sun began rising over the northern polar plains at the end of the northern hemisphere winter, the imaging team said.The new images are available at the HiRISE Web site.
"We decided to try imaging the site despite the low light levels," said. HiRISE team members Ingrid Spitale of the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
Now if only Phoenix still works after all that time under Martian ice...
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