The Year in Science: Space 1997

Cheaper, Faster, Bouncier

By Richard A Kerr
Jan 1, 1998 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:11 AM

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To the millions of people glued to their televisions last Fourth of July, the Pathfinder mission to Mars was a resounding success. It gave them expansive views of a rock-strewn, undulating terrain washed billions of years ago by a flood of Noachian proportions, dust-laden pink Martian sunrises, and images—sometimes comical—of the Sojourner rover ambling like an Erector toy from rock to rock. The probe even sent Martian weather reports: there was a deep chill in the summer air and the dust devils were out.

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