This is three years old and I can't believe I didn't mention it when it happened, but one of the utterly fascinating things involved with the
Phoenix spacecraft is that another spacecraft, the
Mars Reconaissance Orbiter in orbit around Mars, took pictures of Phoenix
as it descended through the Martian atmosphere and
after it landed. It just blows me away to think of two separate spacecraft coming into contact with each other like that.

The only thing that I find more mind-boggling than this is when
Apollo 12 landed a stone's throw away from
Surveyor 3 and the astronauts wondered on over to it.
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In a similar vein: not long ago a Japanese lunar surveyor got some nice pictures of the trails in the dust made by the Apollo 14 crew.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2034594/NASA-moon-landing-hoax-New-photographs-silence-conspiracy-theory.html
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