CNN - Mars Visual Gallery

Peruse this page for the best of Mars multimedia. From Mars Polar Lander to Pathfinder, our images, virtual models and video clips bring alive one of NASA's most exciting missions.

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Pictures

Mars Polar Lander images:

The lander at Kennedy Space Center in early October

Being tested at Lockheed Martin in Boulder, Colorado in January 1998

All images courtesy NASA

The "Gallery Pan"
A contiguous, uniform panorama of the Pathfinder landing site

Super resolution JPEG (1.6M) High resolution JPEG (408K)	QTVR interactive image (167K) Quicktime visualization (1.9M)
Interactive: Track Sojourner's mission on Mars
More Pathfinder images: Panoramic coordinate map of rocks at the landing site Sojourner rover's path throughout the mission Super resolution image of "Big Crater" Color-enhanced mosaic of Sojourner visiting "Moe" Pathfinder Lander taken from Sojourner Rover Mosaic of Pathfinder shots and Viking orbiter images Super resolution shot of "Yogi" Super resolution shot of "Mini Matterhorn" Super resolution shot of "Barnacle Bill" The Martian sunset Blue clouds in the eastern sky All images courtesy NASA

Movies

Sojourner moves rock called Hassock - slide show
(86K QuickTime movie)
Dr. Matthew Golombek explains the rover movement
(598K QuickTime movie)
Slideshow of three-dimensional images from Mars
(681K QuickTime movie -- requires red-blue 3-D glasses)
Panorama of the Pathfinder landing site
(1.9M QuickTime movie)
Surveyor animation (how it maps)
(878K QuickTime movie)
NASA animation of the Mars probe position
(621K QuickTime movie)

Color-controlled animation of Mars surface
(675k QuickTime movie)

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QTVR Panorama of the Pathfinder landing site
QTVR Surveyor model
QTVR Sojourner rover model
QTVR Orbiter model
Cult 3-D Sojourner rover model
Cult 3-D Planet Mars model

VRML Mars Global Surveyor model

Plugin help:

QuickTime and QTVR: Apple Quicktime
Cult 3-D: Cult 3-D plugin
VRML: Cosmo Player (recommended) or World View

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