PIA01134: Sojourner Rover View of Shark and Half Dome
Target Name: Mars
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Spacecraft: Mars Pathfinder Rover
Instrument: Rover Cameras
Product Size: 370 samples x 288 lines
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: P49704
MRPS86810
Addition Date: 1998-01-07
Other Information: Science Magazine, 5 December, 1997
Primary Data Set: MARS_PATHFINDER_PAGE
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Original Caption Released with Image:
The rounded knobs (arrows) up to 3 or 4 cm wide on Shark (left; approximately 70 cm wide)) and Half Dome (upper right) and in the foreground could be pebbles in a cemented matrix of clays, silts, and sands; such rocks are called conglomerates. Well-rounded objects like these were not seen at the Viking sites.

NOTE: original caption as published in Science Magazine.

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 a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1998-01-07