As you probably know by now, the Pheonix Lander has descended and landed on Mars. Another first for NASA is that the MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) has photographed the Pheonix while the spacecraft was descending on Mars. The high-resolution camera caught an awesome image on Sunday of the Pheonix which currently sends images from the landing site.

The Pheonix spacecraft will transmit information and pictures from Mars’ northern polar region with the help of the MRO. The information that it will be sent are mainly meteorological and geological samples. Although there were some problems with the data relay through the MRO, the Pheonix will send its studies over the next three months.