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This animated camera view zooms in from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander launch
site all the way to Phoenix's Microscopy and Electrochemistry and C
€onductivity Analyzer (MECA) aboard the spacecraft on the Martian surface.
The final frame shows the soil sample delivered to MECA as viewed through
the Optical Microscope (OM) on Sol 17 (June 11, 2008), or the 17th Martian
day.
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.