http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/17/soviet-mars-3-lander-found
Amateur Russian astronomers may well have found the final resting place of the Mars 3 lander, the first probe to successfully achieve a soft landing on Mars on 2 December 1971.
On 10 March, the HiRISE camera took those further pictures, to try and get a good look at what the group had found in colour, and with better angles of illumination. The candidate features match the sizes and shapes of the Mars 3 objects very closely. The parachute candidate is roughly seven metres wide compared to its fully stretched size of 11 metres, for example, and the petal-shaped lander’s 1.5m size is close to the roughly 1.8m petal-shaped lander candidate. There’s even evidence of surface damage from the 4.5m chain that connected the lander to the retrorocket, and which could have dragged across the ground during landing.
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