wrote:

Whats really neat is that the site states they will be soon imaging
other "hardware" landing spots, including Viking Pathfinder, MPL. Of
course I'll throw a vote in for the Soviet landing sights as well (how
would one find out where they landed?),,,,,,this is going to be very
interesting...................Doc



The problem with the Soviet launders is that they were basically spheres
that deployed four petals, so it might be hard to tell them from rocks.
The heatshield might show up, but it's going to take a lot of photo
analysis and luck to spot one.
The other problem is that they were designed to self-destruct after
they'd landed and taken their photos by use of a thermite charge to
avoid contaminating the Martian environment, so what may be down there
now are piles of fuzed slag, not spacecraft.

Pat