"One day after a picture-perfect landing on Mars, NASA’s Phoenix lander seemed Monday to be in perfect health. The spacecraft has redundant systems to survive the failure of some components, and mission controllers have drawn up contingency plans for possible problems. At a news conference on Monday, NASA released a photograph made possible by another engineering tour de force. On Sunday, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, passing by at an altitude of 192 miles and traveling 7,600 miles per hour, snapped a picture of the Phoenix and its billowing parachute as it descended through the Martian air to its landing site."[via new york times]
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