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PIA00645: A rover wheel in soil - color
Target Name: Mars
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Spacecraft: Mars Pathfinder Rover
Instrument: Rover Cameras
Product Size: 200 samples x 474 lines
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: P48875
MRPS81087
Addition Date: 1997-07-09
Primary Data Set: MARS_PATHFINDER_PAGE
Full-Res TIFF: PIA00645.tif (217.4 kB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA00645.jpg (9.28 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
The image was taken by a camera aboard the Sojourner rover on Sol 4. A rover wheel is at center, and tracks are visible in the soil at top where the cleated wheel passed over the surface.

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


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