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Phoenix Takes Image of Martian Dust Particle Saturday, August 16, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. The particle -- shown at higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world -- is a rounded particle about one micrometer, or one millionth of a meter, across. It is a speck of the dust that cloaks Mars. Such dust particles color the Martian sky pink, feed storms that regularly envelop the planet and produce Mars' distinctive red soil. (source: jpl.nasa.gov)
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