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Overhead View of Pathfinder Landing Site

Target Name:  Mars
Spacecraft:  Mars Pathfinder
Produced by:  NASA AMES
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Date Released: 14 October 1997

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This image, prepared by Pathfinder scientists at NASA/Ames Research Center, is a view of the landing site from above. Seen in the lower right is Mermaid dune, with its long axis oriented northwest-southeast and its steeper side, the presumed slipface, toward the southwest. Dunes like Mermaid, the depositional tails and erosional moats associated with rocks in the area, and the fluted and polished surfaces on several boulders at the landing site all indicate an effective wind that blows from the northeast to the southwest.

Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals.

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