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While the UA-led Phoenix Mars lander grabbed all the attention on Sunday,  another piece of UA technology stole the show on Memorial Day. 

  An image from the UA-developed HiRISE camera captured Phoenix during its  speedy descent to Mars, complete with an open parachute that stands out  sharply from Mars’ darkened surface. 

  Experts with both the Phoenix mission and HiRISE were awestruck by the  image, which mission planners predicted had roughly an 80 percent chance of  occurring as the spacecraft flew through Mars’ atmosphere. 

  “This is a spectacular image,” said Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project  manager for Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “It’s an  engineer’s delight.” 

During a news conference on Monday, mission planners said Phoenix continued  to perform well and was busy taking another series of images and checking to  make sure its equipment worked. 

  Phoenix landed on Mars just before 5 p.m. on Sunday after a 10-month,  422-million-mile journey. 

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