PIA00671: Rover wheel & tracks - color
Rover wheel & tracks - color
Target Name: Mars
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Spacecraft: Mars Pathfinder Rover
Instrument: Rover Cameras
Product Size: 440 x 421 pixels (width x height)
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: P48903
MRPS81315
Addition Date: 1997-07-11
Primary Data Set: MARS_PATHFINDER_PAGE
Full-Res TIFF: PIA00671.tif (439.2 kB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA00671.jpg (23.49 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This view from the Sojourner rover's rear color camera shows wheel tracks in the orange-red martian soil. One of the rover's cleated wheels is visible at left.

Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1997-07-11