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 Phoenix first horizon shots may have already triggered controversy due to a large anomaly seen on the horizon. Ref: SOL0 281706502
The Surface Stereo Imager Right on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander acquired this image at 17:15:35 local solar time at the Phoenix site on the mission's Martian day, or Sol, 0. The camera pointing was elevation -1.33297 [deg] and azimuth 356.297 [deg]
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
This image could just be a glitch in the transmission but We've never seen a glitch with a shadow. ;)
Original Image can be found at http://fawkes3.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_440.jpg.
A more plausable explanation is that its just debris from lander... Just seems awful lonely with no other parts laying around it!
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thought the same thing when i saw it untill my wife pointed out that it had a shadow. 
I wonder if we will have anny offical word of what it is or "is not" 
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