Far, far too many people to name have already posted about the image that appeared on the Phoenix website shortly after the lander touched down beautifully on Mars early on Tuesday morning. However, I'm not going to make an excuse because amongst the recent images of volcanoes, earthquakes, cyclones, bombings and all manner of other unpleasant things, this is truly a testament to humankind's ingenuity and determination. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was set-up and had only one chance to get a shot of Phoenix parachuting towards the Martian surface. Did they succeed or what?

From NASA's Phoenix website:

The HiRISE acquired this image on May 25, 2008, at 4:36 p.m. Pacific Time (7:36 p.m. Eastern Time). It is a highly oblique view of the Martian surface, 26 degrees above the horizon, or 64 degrees from the normal straight-down imaging of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image has a scale of 0.76 meters per pixel.

So here we have a robotic probe photographing another robotic probe from its orbit of an alien world whilst the latter probe makes its way down for a historic landing north of that alien world's Arctic Circle. Pretty neat.