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Mars EXPRESS observation of the PHOENIX entry: simulations, planning, results and lessons learned

Reberac, A.; Montmessin, F.; Bertaux, J. -L. +10 more

NASA's PHOENIX spacecraft has successfully landed on Mars on 25 May 2008. ESA supported the event by recording signals from PHOENIX by the Mars EXPRESS spacecraft using its lander communication subsystem. Following numerical simulations of the probe entry plume emission, two Mars EXPRESS instruments, namely the High Resolution and Stereo Camera (H…