Mars: Twin Peaks In Stereo

Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across the surface of Mars in stereo. You are looking south of west across an ancient flood channel , Ares Vallis, landing site of the Mars Pathfinder . A rover deployment ramp and lander petal define the foreground in this 3D-view while a field of rocks seems to stretch to the horizon. At the upper right, over half a mile distant, are the hills known as the “Twin Peaks”. Today is Sol 10, the tenth day the Pathfinder lander and Sojourner rover have been operating on the martian surface . Over that period, the mission has been returning a wealth of images and data . The otherwise successful rover activities have been recently hampered by some communication and computer difficulties.