Opportunity Rocks: Lead Scientist 'Flabbergasted' by Photos
Charleston Gazette › January 27, 2004
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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth on Sunday, delighting and puzzling scientists just hours after the spacecraft bounced to a landing.
The pictures show a surface smooth and dark red in some places, and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others. Bounce marks left by the rover's air bags when it landed were clearly visible.See the full content of this document
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Opportunity Rocks: Lead Scientist 'Flabbergasted' by Photos
"I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission's main scientist. "I still don't know what w...
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