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PIA09944: Far-Northern Destination for Phoenix Mars Lander
This is an orthographic projection with color-coded elevation contours and shaded relief based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
Phoenix 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  MOLA 
 Product Size:  1127 x 1125 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Arizona 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA09944.tif (3.808 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA09944.jpg (244.1 kB)  

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The planned landing site for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander lies at a latitude on Mars equivalent to northern Alaska on Earth. It is within the region designated "D" on this global image.

This is an orthographic projection with color-coded elevation contours and shaded relief based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Total vertical relief is about 28 kilometers (17 miles) from the top of the highest volcano (red) to the northern lowlands (blue). North pole is where the longitude lines converge.

Photojournal Note: As planned, the Phoenix lander, which landed May 25, 2008 23:53 UTC, ended communications in November 2008, about six months after landing, when its solar panels ceased operating in the dark Martian winter.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Washington Univ. St. Louis/Univ. of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2007-08-02