Re: Mars Phoenix Lander

The neat NASA animations provided to the media shows how rockets slowled
the ship down prior to landing.

Out of curiosity, doesn't that contaminate the soil all around the
landing side and kill off all life with the fire/heat of the rockets ?

How do they mitigate this problem ?
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