Doesn't look as though it is landing on water, does it? I did NOT take these photos. Credit goes to (gyfdad) from Lancaster, CA who was standing on about a 400' hill adjacent to the approach path at Lake Elsinor, CA while the Mars was working the October 2007 fires in Southern California.

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