NASA’s Red Planet Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first twenty of its three-month missionary station “to savor and sniff the northern diametrical site’s soil and ice,” the infinite agency informated.

The Lander took a picture of the ground’s polygonal pattern, alike to wintry ground in the arctic parts of Earth.

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The first pictures from NASA’s Red Planet Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars’ north pole Sunday, showed a form of brown polygonal shapes as far as the photographic camera could see.

The Red Planet Phoenix Lander took this image of the planet’s surface at its landing place site Lord.

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By Kate Tobin Senior Manufacturer, CNN Scientific discipline & Engineering

In the aftermath of the wildly successful Spirit and Chance rover foreign missions, you would think National Aeronautics and Space Administration would approach the landing place of the next Martian probe with high sureness.

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Plain, Illinois When Martin Barbre acquired his first look 3 old age ago at a scheme that would drive his tractor for him, he didn’t buy the twist — or the premiss that it would cut cost on his farm.

A sodbuster in Prairie State sprays weed killer using GPS technology to hold costs down.

“When they first came up out with them and we first seemed at it, it looked like a fancy gismo,” said Barbre, a 53-year-old who turns corn and soys in southerly Illinois.

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