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Re: Phoenix - Mars landing preview webcast

First images are down!



Array deployment confirmed, and there is Mars! The spacecraft seems healthy. We can see the surface in the background, small conglomerations of soil and what appear to be small rocks, and at least one good image of the horizon. The entire area looks really flat, which in this case is great!

This looks like a great place to start digging. It does look like the bio-barrier has deployed, which is one of the major events that has to take place before the arm can be deployed and we can start sampling the soil.

-dave
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My OTHER CAR is still on Mars!!!

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