The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 194National Geographic Society., 1998 - Geography |
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... rover named Sojourner eased away from the Mars Pathfinder lander , which had carried it to this rocky Martian plain 119 million miles from Earth . The two - foot - long vehicle rolled along a Mars landscape replicated from images beamed ...
... rover named Sojourner eased away from the Mars Pathfinder lander , which had carried it to this rocky Martian plain 119 million miles from Earth . The two - foot - long vehicle rolled along a Mars landscape replicated from images beamed ...
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... rover ventured off the lander , it saw rocks that are possibly conglomerates , a type of rock that forms over millennia as water rounds pebbles and cobbles and deposits them in a matrix of sand and clay . " That means 18 there was once ...
... rover ventured off the lander , it saw rocks that are possibly conglomerates , a type of rock that forms over millennia as water rounds pebbles and cobbles and deposits them in a matrix of sand and clay . " That means 18 there was once ...
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... rover driver , sat at his computer screen and mapped out Sojourner's route , a trail the rover followed at a blistering two feet a minute . Cooper couldn't simply rev it up and drive it around like a kid with a remote - control car ...
... rover driver , sat at his computer screen and mapped out Sojourner's route , a trail the rover followed at a blistering two feet a minute . Cooper couldn't simply rev it up and drive it around like a kid with a remote - control car ...
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