So I'm late again, sue me. Maybe three people are paying attention (how come none of you emailed to see if I was ok?) so I don't think that life ground to a halt anywhere.
With this installment of Foto Friday I'd like to direct your attention to another blog that you'll enjoy and will pretty much ruin any high opinions you had of Foto Fridays. So follow the link to The Big Picture at Boston.com (the Boston Globe's site) and feast your eyes on gallerys of huge pictures.
In the past couple of months, since The Big Picture debuted, they've run some of the same shots as we have only much bigger and better. Enjoy.
Here is a shot from the recent 'Martian Skies' gallery.
The air is certainly thick enough to fill a parachute. On May 25th, 2008, the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this dramatic oblique image of the arrival of its sister probe from NASA, the Phoenix Lander, descending on its parachute. Phoenix and its parachute can be barely seen in the larger image with 10 km wide crater informally called "Heimdall" in the background. Although it appears that Phoenix is descending into the crater, it is actually about 20 kilometers in front of the crater. Given the position and pointing angle of MRO, Phoenix is at about 13 km above the surface, just a few seconds after the parachute opened. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
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