YeinJee's Asian Journal » Planet Mars http://yeinjee.com Popular blog on Asian culture, lifestyle, entertainment, food, travel, otaku, trends, traditions, pictures, videos, and offbeat stuff. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Phoenix touched down on Mars http://yeinjee.com/2008/phoenix-touched-down-on-mars/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/phoenix-touched-down-on-mars/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 08:48:48 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=333 NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully landed on Mars on May 25 in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis.

Below is an approximate-colour image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft’s Surface Stereo Imager, which shows a polygonal pattern in the ground, similar in appearance to icy ground in the arctic regions of earth.

Mars picture from Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona

The mission aims to study the geologic history of water, the key to unlocking the story of past climate change; and to search for evidence of a habitable zone that may exist in the ice-soil boundary. Updates about the mission is available on NASA’s website.

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