Eye Drops Into Martian Sky

Posted by jburk to Mars Odyssey at December 2, 1999 12:00 PM

As explosive charges detonate around the Mars Polar Lander to help it break out of the cocoon of its cruise configuration, a downward-gazing camera will be snapping pictures of the martian polar landscape. It will take a series of still images starting about 4 miles (a little more than 6 kilometers) above the southern polar terrain.