May 26, 2008
Phoenix was launched on August 4 last year with the mission to land for the first time in a polar region, which scientists considered as the most likely to have frozen water under thin layer of soil.
The landing is a major success for NASA since more than half of all attempts by the human race to land on Martian surface have failed.
Image: A NASA handout shows the Phoenix Mars Lander's solar arrays after te probe landed on Mars.
Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona via Getty Images
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