Digging in 'Snow White' Trench

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University, Posted on: Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 06:18 CDT Download full size image

This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 44th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 43 (July 7, 2008), after the May 25, 2008, landing, showing the current sample scraping area in the trench informally called "Snow White."

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