Editing Mars 3 (section)

=== Possible images of lander on Mars ===
On April 11, 2013, NASA announced that the [[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter|''Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter'' (MRO)]] may have imaged the Mars 3 lander hardware on the surface of Mars.  The [[HiRISE]] camera on the MRO took images of what may be the parachute, retrorockets, [[heat shield]] and [[lander (spacecraft)|lander]].<ref name=NASA-20130411/> This discovery was made by amateur space enthusiasts looking through publicly available archived images.<ref name=mars3-1/><ref name=mars3-2/>
{{wide image |PIA16920-MarsSoviet3Lander1971-PossibleDebrisField.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|Candidate hardware for 1971 Soviet Mars 3 lander.  The predicted landing site was at latitude 45 degrees south, longitude 202 degrees east, in [[Ptolemaeus (Martian crater)|Ptolemaeus Crater]] (images: [[HiRISE]], [[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter|MRO]] - November 2007/left & 10 March 2013/right).<ref name=NASA-20130411/>}}
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