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Astronomy Image of the Day

Yogi Rock on Mars

09 March 1998

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NASA Astronomy Image of the Day for 09 March 1998

Yogi is possibly the best photographed rock on Mars. By combining many pictures taken during the Mars Pathfinder Mission last year, scientists were able to create a super-resolution, digitally enhanced image that better allows them to study Yogi's surface and more accurately determine how Yogi was formed. The smoothness of some Martian rocks suggests previous interactions with water, implying that Mars was both warmer and wetter in the past.

Image and explanation courtesy of NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day