Introduction

Lindy elkinstanton is a foundation and regent's professor in arizona state university's school of earth and space exploration. She was principal investigator for the first ever mission to a metal asteroid. The image that leads the june ten edition of the down link, you might be forgiven for thinking a spacecraft had landed on the little is b six 12 asteroid. It's actually a fish eye selpi, taken by that mars exploring pioneer, pathfinder back in 19 97. Pathfinder and its sojourner rover are also featured on the cover of the june solstice issue of the planetary report. That's when nassau will share the first science images from the