|  bisher 440 mal gesehen | | Zurück zum Bericht | alle Bilder dieser Serie | alle Bilder dieses Autors |  Foto | Foto 12 von 13 | Foto  |  | This image, one of the first captured by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars. The flat landscape is strewn with tiny pebbles and shows polygonal cracking, a pattern seen widely in Martian high latitudes and also observed in permafrost terrains on Earth. The polygonal cracking is believed to have resulted from seasonal freezing and thawing of surface ice.
Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north latitude, 234 degrees east longitude.
This is an approximate-color image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter.
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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| | Aktueller Bericht: Die besten Bilder vom Mars - Phoenix Mission + ... | | Autor des Berichts: weltenbummler 2 | | erstellt: 26.05.2008 | | bisher gesehen: 440 mal | | Stichworte: Phoenix, Mars, Bilder, Raumfahrt, Video |
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