Latest Mars Footage June 2008: Looking out Across Mars

First ever footage of the Martian plains in true color.
This movie shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars, as seen by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shortly after touching down on the Red Planet. 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 Mars at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 p.m. 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 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/Texas A&M

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[46FreddieMercury91]

i'll bet theres a MacDonalds within 2miles of this footage

[Corncrops]

@dax506 Chuck Norris has already been to Mars, that is why there are no signs of life there.

[Mr556x45mm]

0:48 Is that a duck on mars?

[thejameskan]

very interesting video thanks

[alcoholicmr]

is it me or would that be the best atv track ever

[Planetoxo]

No building work's started yet?

[Jll3001]

@dax506

Are you really that dumb? Money, knowlege, safety etc. etc.

[eysofastrnjr]

yea right,ancient river bed. Youfucking humanists, thats all you do is reach or totally stretch shit out to con people into fitting your own little private agendas.

[wassup986]

@dax506 No doubt astronauts would be scared unless they have a pair of steel balls. With current technology, it takes us 5.5 months to get to Mars. Obviously we are too scared to venture out so far with our lives. It's not so bad on the moon, you can see Earth from there very easily. But from Mars? It'll be a spec just barely bigger than what Mars looks like from Earth. What if something goes wrong? The people need to know that if something fails, they can't return to Earth and will die.

[awf9287]

@EhyoWassap What the hell are you saying. This is nonsense.