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Photos of the surface of Mars
Planet Mars Home | More Pictures of Mars
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Picture of Yogi (a rock) by the Mars Pathfinder IMP camera. This photo is a combination of several photos taken using several different filters.
Yogi is about a meter in diameter. This is about the color Yogi and its surroundings would appear to the human eye.
Photo by Mars Pathfinder of three classes of rock on Mars. Colors have been exaggerated to highlight the different rock types and soils. The three classes of rocks on Mars are: large rounded rocks with weathered coatings, small gray angular rocks without a weathered coating, and flat white rocks.
Large rounded rocks are indicated by the red arrows. Yogi is a large rounded rock too.
Angular rock are marked with the blue arrows.
The white arrows point out the white, flat rocks. The white, flat rock in the foreground is named Scooby Doo.
A false color photo of the Rock Garden by the Imager For Mars Pathfinder. The rock at the top-center of this photo is called "Half Dome".
Photo of Jenkins Dune on the planet Mars. This dune is about 30 centimeters tall and 2 to 3 meters wide.
Due to the shape of the dune it is deduced that the wind is coming from the left.
Photo of water ice at Utopia Planitia ( map of Mars ) - the landing site of Viking Lander 2 in 1979. ( Pictures of the Viking Lander spacecraft )
Questions about these photos of the planet Mars
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- Describe what the surface of Mars looks like?
- What is Yogi?
- Name the three classes of rocks on Mars.
- Are there frozen water on Mars? And lots of flowing, liquid water?
- Name one spacecraft that took these photographs of the surface of Mars.
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