A phorto opportunity on Mars

maycm · 'cheeky banana' Joined: 29 Apr 2006

Not sure if anyone else is watching the latest Nasa explorer on Mard, but the Phoenix lander reached there this week.

During the landing, one of the orbiters took a picture of the lander as it parachuted towards it's landing. No mean feat in itself if you think about it, but when you see the picture, it's just a stunning achievement.

LINK

By the way, the crater in the background is nowhere near as close as it appears - its actually about 60 miles away.

major.tom · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:37 am Post subject:

You can tell how huge it is by the scale of the parachute. Very nice photo, Maycm. I enjoy space pics.

This happens to be today's photo on the Astronomy Picture of the Day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

now that's a big hole, or a very small satellite!