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Mars lander sends home first photos of Red Planet
May 26 2008, Pooja

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month mission “to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s soil and ice,” the space agency said.

The first pictures, which the lander began...

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