Compared to the Vikings and Mars Pathfinder. But I know what
you are saying. Though the rover "eyes" were five feet off the
ground and in stereo vision, so at least they would give one an
idea of what it would be like on Mars if you were a somewhat
short astronaut.

Viking 1 came within yards of a boulder called Big Joe that would
have broken the lander in half if it came down on it, and Viking 2
got tilted 8 degrees due to all the rocks as far as the eye could see.
Those landers were very, very lucky.

I would love to know what the Soviet Mars 2, 3, and 6 landing
(or crashing) sites look like, to say nothing of the probes themselves.

How goes the search for those robot pioneers? They may not have
done much, but they were first on the Red Planet.

I also read about the possibility that Zond 2, which had a lander
capsule, might have actually crashed into Mars in 1965 instead of
a flyby (it had lost power and communications before reaching the
planet). I wonder if we could ever figure out if its either wreckage
in the Martian regolith or still circling the Sun?

Future space historians who can actually travel out there are going
to have a blast.