Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 20:21
in Astronomy & Space
A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet. The mission's Optical Microscope observed particles that had fallen onto an exposed surface, revealing grains as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair.