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NASA/University of ArizonaBy Dan Marries
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD)- Remember the Phoenix Mars Lander? A camera mounted aboard a Mars orbitor has snapped a picture of the spacecraft sitting on the martian surface. It's been a year this month since NASA and the University of Arizona lost its communication link with Phoenix during a firece dust storm.
The HiRise camera, operated by the University of Arizona, captured two images showing the small craft surrounded by a sheet of frost. This confirms what scientists thought all along, that carbon dioxide frost would cover the craft.
The Lander spent five months on Mars last year digging, sifting, sniffing, and baking icy soil to learn more about the history of water on the red planet and wheterh the environment was ever friendly to life.
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