Mars Landing: Now A Spectator Sport

[major_clanger]

Photographing a Mars lander from orbit: very impressive.

Photographing another Mars orbiter from orbit: really rather cool.

Photographing Phoenix as it floats down to Mars under its parachute: now you're just showing off.

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Showing off or not, it is pretty damned cool. :)

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

The Planetary Society blog has a zoomed view of the Phoenix parachute photo here, http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001464/ (scroll down).