Tapping the Icy Polar Cap of Mars (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Tapping the Icy Polar Cap of Mars (2 of 2)

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This is an enhanced-color SSI (surface stereo imager) image of the landing site. Sol (Martian solar day) 0 image of the patterned ground shaped by sub-surface ice. This image accompanied the report "H2O at the Phoenix Landing Site," by P. H. Smith et al appearing in the July 3, 2009, issue of Science.

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