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Mars Pathfinder [1] was 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, [4] the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system.
Lost with Mars 96: 29 Mars Pathfinder: Mars Pathfinder: 4 December 1996: NASA United States: Lander Successful Landed at 19.13°N 33.22°W on 4 July 1997, [17] Last contact on 27 September 1997 Delta II 7925: Sojourner: Rover Successful First rover to operate on another planet. Operated for 84 days [18] 30 Nozomi: Nozomi (PLANET-B) 3 July 1998 ...
The robotic Sojourner rover reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days), and was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon.
“Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “The X-15 was a pathfinder for the space shuttle. Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner rover did the same for three generations of Mars rovers.
The mission's scientific objective was to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. The mission was part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, which includes three previous successful landers: the two Viking program landers in 1976; and Mars Pathfinder probe in 1997. [citation needed]
The MAE integration module. The MAE was mounted to the left-front top corner of the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover.. The Materials Adherence Experiment (MAE) was a material science experiment conducted between July 4, 1997, and August 12, 1997, during NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. [1]
This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. There are over 80 currently active science missions.
Astronomers reflect on the 25th anniversary of the Mars rover landing, the first wheeled robot to roam a planet.