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Phoenix panorama - The Planetary Society has an attempt at creating a panorama of the Phoenix images to date. Quite an amazing view, I wonder what the mountains in the background are.

Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?… turns out it’s ice, not salt.
Awesome! There was once water on mars!

Bad Astronomy Blog/Best. Image. Ever. Here’s an image of the lander taken from the orbiter. This is so awesome . The coordination is so great that we can take a picture of one probe with another one. Chaulk up another great success for NASA. Now to wait for the science.

Phoenix descent video. Bad Astronomy is on the scene with the phoenix descent video. Phoenix is the next Martian lander which is equipped with devices to look for water and do basic soil element detection. More at NASA Phoenix