Yogi Rock
Explanation:
This portrait of Yogi Rock, a now famous boulder
on Mars, was recorded on
Sol 3 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder
(
IMP).
Big and friendly looking like its Earth cartoon namesake Yogi Bear,
Yogi Rock is a prominent visible feature at
the Pathfinder landing site.
Yogi and surrounding soil
are being examined close up by the Sojourner
robot rover.
Initial attempts to approach the rock and to place
Sojourner's Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer against it
have met with some minor, but not unusual, difficulties.
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.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
