Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Yogi Rock
Explanation:
This portrait [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] of Yogi Rock, a now famous boulder on Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], was recorded on Sol [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] 3 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP [ http://imp.lpl.ariz…]). Big and friendly looking like its Earth cartoon namesake Yogi Bear, Yogi Rock is a prominent visible feature at the Pathfinder landing site [ http://www.jpl.nasa…]. Yogi and surrounding [ http://www.sun.com/…] soil are being examined close up [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] by the Sojourner robot rover. Initial attempts [ http://www.sun.com/…] to approach the rock and to place Sojourner's Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer [ http://mars.sgi.com…] against it have met with some minor, but not unusual, difficulties [ http://www.jpl.nasa…]. It is speculated that the light colored "moat-like" terrain around Yogi is the result of the evaporation of surface water deposited by ancient floods.
Credit and Copyright:
IMP Team [ http://www.lpl.ariz…] JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
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Mars
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Arizona
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Earth
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Sun
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Mars
facet_what:
Imager
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MPF
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Mars Pathfinder
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Spectrometer
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Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer
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Imager for Mars Pathfinder
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap970711

Yogi Rock
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