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PHOTO CAPTION                 MRPS #80839     
                              P-48824                                                             
                              July 5, 1997  (Sol 2) 
                              Color mosaic of rover & terrain

The Sojourner rover and undeployed ramps onboard the Mars 
Pathfinder spacecraft can be seen in in this image, by the Imager 
for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on July 4 (Sol 1). This image has been 
corrected for the curvature  created by parallax. The microrover 
Sojourner is latched to the petal, and has not yet  been 
deployed. The ramps are a pair of deployable metal reels which 
will provide a track for the rover as it slowly rolls off the 
lander, over the spacecraft's deflated airbags, and onto the 
surface of Mars.  Pathfinder scientists will use this image to 
determine whether it is safe to deploy the ramps. One or both of 
the ramps will be unfurled, and then scientists  will decide 
whether the rover will use either the forward or backward ramp 
for its descent.

Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-
cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the 
Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, 
Washington, D.C.  

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