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First images from Phoenix Mars lander
| The martian surface, seen by Phoenix (Picture: NASA). |
26.05.2008
ESA completed a key step in its ongoing support to NASA's Phoenix mission, when signals from the Phoenix Mars lander recorded by Mars Express were successfully received at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany. The first few images returned by the lander are now available.
The signals from Phoenix were monitored between 01:21 - 01:47 CEST on 26 May during the lander's critical entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, and were received by the European spacecraft via the Mars Express Lander Communications (MELACOM) system.
More pictures can be found in ESA´s webpage.
