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Under Phoenix Lander

By Ted Twietmeyer
6-4-8
 
 
Fig. 1 - Image taken by robotic arm under lander
 
Some observations:
 
* Red arrow points to one of the Phoenix Lander pads, which doesn't appear to show any rotation by the Phoenix Lander after touching the soil.
 
* Despite thruster gases that can displace the soil or sand, it appears that little if any of this material settled on the top of the Lander's pad (red arrow.) Top of pad appears to be white without granular surface material.
 
* Mars has an atmosphere only 1% of Earth according to NASA. This has yet to corroborated by any other non-NASA lander. The ESA's Beagle Lander went silent during landing. There would be little atmospheric resistance to dust flying out from under the Phoenix Lander, and some of this material should be visible on the top of the Lander's pad. This material could travel quite some distance before settling. There appears to be a roughly circular area around the Lander where we don't see the gravel-like material in the distance, but this is not conclusive evidence and could be a coincidence.
 
 
Fig. 2 - Artist's rendition of the spacecraft landing showing locations of landing thrusters. Grey vertical box visible at the top of the Lander (top-center) is the
Lidar experiment from Canada to measure cloud altitudes, up to 20KM or possibly higher.
 
Last word about the LIDAR system was that it was not operational. A special landing camera is mounted which points downward only. This camera was built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) which is the same company found to be censoring images from Mars from another Mars mission. MSSS was releasing tens of thousands of images at a time which it claimed it didn't know it had, instead of releasing images as they arrived. MSSS previewed and approved all the released images first, even before NASA saw them. The Lander's camera had software crash problems which could not be fixed by launch time according to JPL, but was left in place.
 
* Yellow lines in Fig. 1 show centers of thrust vectors from engine bells with the angles shown when this photo was taken. The Phoenix Lander has a group of these engines but only three are visible here. Thrust lines do not line up with exposed white surfaces. There is a possibility that the engine nozzles where not straight while in operation to balance the vehicle, but we cannot determine that from this image.
 
* There are three engine nozzles but only two exposed white areas. Another exposed area may be present in the lower left corner of the image, but since it is not in sunlight we cannot tell for certain.
 
I won't draw any conclusions but will leave that to the reader's imagination.
 
Ted Twietmeyer
www.data4science.net
 
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