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This page contains QuickTime movies, which were made available as the Mars Pathfinder mission progressed. Below are still frames of each movie, with a brief description of what is in each movie.

NOTE: These files have been zipped so you can dowload and view the files off-line.

Note for Mac users: StuffIt Expander will open zip files; still, if you want a StuffIt version of these movies, drop me an e-mail and I'll post them here.

A desciption on how the Pathfinder would approach, and land, on Mars. A chute deploys, then balloons inflate to let the module bounce on the surface.		This shows a view of Mars, from Sojourner's (the robot rover) perspective. No audio in this clip, but you'll see some great computer animation.
(Source: ABC News) Size: 988K		(Source: CNN) Size: 892K

The movies are available for download here, though it will take from 5-15 minues each to do so (depending on your dial-up Internet speed .. broadband users go MUCH faster). If you're not in a hurry, though, you can just download one movie, and come back at another time to download another movie. More movies will be posted here at a later date.

Each movie downloads into a separate browser window, which you can minimize so you can go on with your surfing.

To download a movie: Select a movie by clicking on its picture above. If you don't have a QuickTime plug-in for your browser, you can go to http://www.quicktime.com/ and get one FREE. I hope to later also have Windows Media Player files to download, as well.