Tracks Seam Like Airbags
Bearing a striking resemblance to a cluster of paper lanterns, these inflated airbags show a pattern of seams exactly like those left in the martian soil by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during landing at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
- Date
- 2004-01-28
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL/Cornell
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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