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PIA04318: Sojourner Sits Near "Rock Garden"
The Mars Pathfinder Rover Sojourner images by NASA's Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) as it nears the rock 'Wedge.' Part of the Rock Garden is visible in the upper right of the image. Sol 1 began on July 4, 1997.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Pathfinder (MPF) 
 Spacecraft:  Field Experiment
Mars Pathfinder Lander
 Instrument:  Imager for Mars Pathfinder 
 Product Size:  819 x 415 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  California Institute of Technology 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04318.tif (340.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04318.jpg (84.68 kB)  

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The Mars Pathfinder Rover Sojourner images by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder as it nears the rock "Wedge." Part of the Rock Garden is visible in the upper right of the image.

Pathfinder, a low-cost Discovery mission, is the first of a new fleet of spacecraft that are planned to explore Mars over the next ten years. Mars Global Surveyor, already en route, arrives at Mars on September 11 to begin a two year orbital reconnaissance of the planet's composition, topography, and climate. Additional orbiters and landers will follow every 26 months.

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). The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) was developed by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory under contract to JPL. Peter Smith is the Principal Investigator.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2003-02-01