PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet's atmosphere and touched down in Mars' northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of a bleak-looking, oddly patterned plain.

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Pretty cool if you ask me. Time to find out why the planer appears to have died.