New images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars, the Spirit rover wihch has been on the surface since January 2004 and the two Viking landers that reached the red planet in 1976. 

“The biggest surprise is that you can still see what appears to be the parachute after 30 years,” said Dr. Tim Parker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., whose calculations helped determine where to point the orbital camera for seeing the Viking landers.

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