Mars Lander Success

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 26, 2008 3:59 PM EDT

Article Source: BBC News

A Nasa spacecraft has sent back historic first pictures of an unexplored region of Mars.

The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 million-mile) journey from Earth.

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