The hole in the ground produced by the first Robotic Arm dig at the
landing site of NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission appears to the right of the
three largest rocks near the center of this image.
The hole is the width of the scoop on the end of the arm, about 9
centimeters (3.5 inches). It resulted from a practice dig during the
mission's seventh Martian day, or sol 7 (June 1, 2008). The lander's
Surface Stereo Imager took this image later that sol. The image is in
approximately true color, produced by combining exposures taken through
different filters. The green band at upper left is a portion where imaging
data was incomplete in for one of the filters.
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.