ALL MARS, ALL THE TIME: WEATHER, NEWS COMING TO THE WEB

Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:59:41 EST5EDT
Source: The Hartford Courant / Associated Press
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Want to know the latest weather on Mars? Or tag along with a Mars rover for close up views of the terrain.

Tune in next year and you'll get all this and more.

"I would definitely term this the first planetary mission in the full blown Internet era," NASA spokesman Douglas Isbell said Wednesday. "It's vicarious exploration."

NASA plans to post daily Mars weather reports on the Internet once the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft lands on the Red Planet next summer. The spacecraft is to be launched in early December.

What's more, users of the Internet's World Wide Web will be able to see what the Mars rover sees as it ambles along the rocky surface. Expect a 20 to 40 minute lag, though for the time it takes the signals to reach Earth.

Mars Pathfinder will be the first spacecraft to land on Mars since Nasa's twin Viking landers in 1976. {end of article}

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