[meteorite-list] MGS Photos of the Spirit Landing Site

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:08 2004
Message-ID: <200401232204.OAA13957_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Check out these images of the Spirit landing site taken by Mars Global
Surveyor:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/01/23/index.html

Visible in the photos are the Spirit lander, the parachute and backshell,
the heatshield impact, and bounce marks. Spirit actually bounced in
and out of a small crater on the 4th bounce. The heatshield landed
near the rim of a large crater, and it looks like it may have gone
into the crater. This crater, incidently, is the same crater that
the rover is slated to visit, at a distance of 250 meters away.

Ron Baalke
Received on Fri 23 Jan 2004 05:04:55 PM PST