Mars Pathfinder, as seen by its rover, Sojourner, on July 8, 1997, three days after the rover rolled out onto the surface of Chryse Planitia. Visible in front of Pathfinder are a portion of the air bags that cushioned its impact at touchdown, Sojourner’s ramp, and the rover’s tracks leading from the lander.
The robotic rover Sojourner adjacent to a large rock on Mars’s Chryse Planitia, in a photograph taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander on July 22, 1997. The rover has deployed its alpha proton X-ray spectrometer to determine the chemical composition of the rock, one of nine individual specimens that it investigated during its mission.
NASA’s Sojourner robotic rover examining a boulder on Mars’s Chryse Planitia, as imaged by its parent spacecraft, Pathfinder, after landing on the planet July 4, 1997. Parts of Pathfinder’s solar arrays and the rover’s down ramp are in the foreground.
Close-up of a pitted volcanic rock resting on the Chryse Planitia lowland of Mars, photographed by the Mars Pathfinder lander’s rover, Sojourner, on September 17, 1997. From the low perspective of Sojourner’s camera, the rock appears boulder-sized, but it is only about 35 cm (1 foot) high. Pathfinder landed on the eastern side of Chryse Planitia at the mouth of a large outflow channel, about 850 km (530 miles) southeast of Viking 1’s landing site.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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