Dr. Gerald A. Soffen (February 7, 1926 - November 22, 2000) was a project scientist for the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/past/viking/">NASA's Viking program of Mars landers.</a> This crater on Mars was named after him, and this image covers a small portion of the crater floor.
<p>Here, we see a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static.uahirise.org/images/2016/details/cut/ESP_047561_1560.jpg">diversity of bedrock colors and textures</a> and wind-blown (aeolian) features.
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The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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