MOJAVE DESERT/PASADENA, California -- This Sunday, NASA's Phoenix lander will touch down on the surface of Mars. If everything proceeds according to plan, it will then start sending images and data back to Earth via one of two Mars orbiters and NASA's Deep Space Network.

Wired.com took a trip out to the desert to bring you some photos of the giant antennas that will receive the distant signals from Mars.

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