Editing Mars Pathfinder (section)

==Landing site==
The landing site was an ancient flood plain in Mars's northern hemisphere called "[[Ares Vallis]]" ("the valley of Ares", the ancient Greek equivalent of the ancient Roman deity Mars) and is among the rockiest parts of Mars. Scientists chose it because they found it to be a relatively safe surface to land on and one that contained a wide variety of rocks deposited during a catastrophic flood. After the landing, at {{Coord|19.13|N|33.22|W|globe:Mars|display=inline,title}},<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/science/geology.html | title=Mars Pathfinder Science Results | work=NASA | access-date=June 9, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920093840/http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/science/geology.html | archive-date=September 20, 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref> succeeded, the lander received the name ''The [[Carl Sagan]] Memorial Station'' in honor of the [[astronomer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mars lander renamed for Sagan|url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/sagansta.html|publisher=NASA|access-date=September 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211162346/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/sagansta.html|archive-date=December 11, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> (See also [[List of extraterrestrial memorials]])

{{Wide image|PIA01466.jpg|1200px|''Mars Pathfinder'' panorama of landing site taken by IMP}}