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The Phoenix lander landed on Vastitas Borealis within the Mare Boreum quadrangle at 68.218830° N and 234.250778° E on May 25, 2008.
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5th Anniversary of the Phoenix launch in 2007.

 

Phoenix Mars Lander: 7 minutes of Terror



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Phoenix Lander Almost 2 Mars Years after Landing

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The lander and backshell are visible, but not the parachute or the dark halo around the lander which is covered by dust.
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Phoenix Lander Almost 2 Mars Years after Landing
  
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This is one of a series of images to monitor frost patterns at the Phoenix landing site.
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Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program.
Phoenix was launched on August 4, 2007, at 5:26:34 a.m. EDT (09:26:34 UTC) on a Delta 7925 launch vehicle from Pad 17-A of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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Awesome post! Thanks for sharing such nice information with us.




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Anniversary of the Phoenix lander launch. (2007)


Phoenix is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there.
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Nasa's Phoenix Mars lander 'broken by ice'

New images appear to confirm that Nasa's Phoenix lander broke apart during Mars' winter.
The static spacecraft, which was sent to study the planet's "high Arctic", lost contact with Earth in late 2008.
Phoenix would have been covered by carbon dioxide ice, and Nasa always said it was likely the mission would be destroyed in such harsh conditions.

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