text: Pictures taken on other planets, including Mars, only tell us to a certain extent what the planet is like. Rock, dust, and crater formations are seen in many areas of planets. Just as with Earth, other planets change throughout time from asteroid collisions, internal movement, and natural occurences. From the era in which we live in, we can only know so much about the planet Mars itself. Just as well, full scale space exploration has only recently become possible with innovation and technology of our society. As seen in paragraph seven, "Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." This proves to us that new additions to technology have been made in a short time period, from 1976 to 1998, twenty-two years. We can see from this that everything, with a second, more detailed look can change.