Summary

Description	Our next question comes from Juan from Gijon and he says hello, and he asks: How, have you considered taking pictures of the pathfinder Viking and MER landing sites? What about lost Martian probes like the Polar, Mars Polar Lander, or Beagle-2? Yeah. We can't wait to look at the landing sites with our resolution instruments. It will be, you know, very exciting to look at the surface and see tracks of the rovers and be able to, it actually provides very important data both for understanding the landing sites and for us because the rovers have been on the surface and looking close-up with a whole suite of instruments. And that helps give us what we call ground truth. It tells us, okay, these are really the minerals that are in this very local area. So when we look at our, at these landing sites with our instruments, that gives us a data point to use to help calibrate what we're seeing. So it helps us improve our science and it helps them by providing additional information with their
Date	2005-08-18
Source	images.nasa.gov

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