Rocks at the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site
By Scott Murchie
Chemical analyses and spectral images of Martian boulders allow inferences about their origins
This Article From Issue
January-February 1999
Volume 87, Number 1
Page 36
DOI: 10.1511/1999.16.36
The metallic tetrahedron, with its protective cover of inflated airbags, hit the ground of Mars at 60 kilometers per hour, bounced 16 times across the red desert floor and rolled end over end, finally coming to a stop amid a field of boulders
Marsscape courtesy of Carol Stoker, NASA Ames. Planetary image courtesy of P. James at the University of Toledo, S. Lee at the University of Colorado, and NASA.
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