Mars Pathfinder
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mars-pathfinder-183-11010711
title:
Mars Pathfinder
text:
Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg (23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system. Launched on December 4, 1996, by NASA aboard a Delta II booster a month after the Mars Global Surveyor, it landed on July 4, 1997, on Mars's Ares Vallis, in a region called Chryse Pl
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mission including first robotic rover to operate on Mars (1997)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder
date created:
2003-01-31T22:32:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T20:02:33Z
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