Mars Pathfinder:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

This is a view looking back from the Mars Pathfinder Rover, named Sojourner, toward the lander. Unlike the present Mars missions, the Mars Pathfinder lander also had its own camera:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

Pathfinder gave us our first close-up analysis of Martian rocks in situ. We also saw a terrain that is pretty rocky, and fairly similar looking to the Viking lander sites.

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