Hubble Finds Cloudy, Cold Weather Conditions for Mars-Bound Spacecraft

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Pathfinder is landing on the Ares Valles, shown at the center of a Hubble Space Telescope full-color disk of Mars. The next map is a closeup of the Hubble image, and finally the Viking image shows the terrain near the Mars Pathfinder landing site, marked by an oval.

Credit: Hubble Images: S. Lee (University of Colorado) and NASA. Viking Digital imageMap: USGS