The bright feature in this image might be the parachute from a 1971 Soviet Mars lander named Mars 3.  The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

April 11, 2013

The bright feature in this image might be the parachute from a 1971 Soviet Mars lander named Mars 3. The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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