1. By: Ashley Baer

2. Basic info  Name: mars rover  Date: left December 4 th 1996  Landed July 4 th 1997  It landed on mars with airbags

3. More about the mars rover  The mars rover has many tools and devices aboard, such as… - The Panoramic camera (Pancam) color imaging system +The device used to see and take pictures through the mars rover -- The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) + the device used to measure the energy of an object -- The Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) + the device used to analyze rock samples structures from mars This image is of mars from: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/marsglobe1.jpg http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/marsglobe1.jpg

4. Scientific discoveries from the expedition Image from the mars rover http://www.space- photos.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/014-mars-pathfinder.jpg

5. Interesting facts about mars  Mars diameter: 6794 km  Density: 3.94 g/cm 3  Mass: 6.421 x 10 23 kg  Volume: 1.643 x 10 11 km 3  Temperature Range: -140° C to 20° C  Atmosphere: Mostly Carbon Dioxide  Winds Up: to 100 km/hr  Moons: 2  Average Distance from Sun: 227,940,000 km  Orbital Period: 1 Years, 320 Days, 18.2 Hours  Rotation: 1 Days, 0.67 Hours  Tilt: 25.19°  Rings: No  Composition: Iron Oxides and Silicates  Magnetic Field: Slight

6. More interesting facts about mars  Every two years or so the Sun, Earth and Mars line up. Its called an opposition. In 2003 Earth and Mars got really close.  One of Mars' moons named Phobos is moving closer and closer to Mars. Scientists think that one day it will crash into Mars.  At its brightest, Mars is brighter than every other planet apart from Venus.  A hundred pound man on earth would weight 38 pounds on Mars. That means I would weight ____________________________________