QUESTION: I have read that the Pathfinder team had a picture of Ares Valles in the hallway of mission control and that each person put their name on the location where they thought Pathfinder would land. Who was right? ANSWER from David Mittman on November 6, 1997: The story can now be told...rover movie director and imaging scientist Justin Maki placed his landing site token closest to the actual landing site. The actual landing site was determined using images of the area taken from orbit by the Viking spacecraft in the late 1970s and images of the landing site horizon taken by the Sagan Memorial Station.