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  2. Mars Pathfinder - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sojourner (rover) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Mars Pathfinder ...

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    Original – Various images of the Sojourner rover shot by the Pathfinder cameras have been composited into the 360 degree Presidential Panorama. Since the camera's position was consistent, it is thus possible to see these images of the rover in the context of the entire landscape.

  5. List of missions to Mars - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. File:NASA Mars Pathfinde Press kit 1997.pdf - Wikipedia

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    The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI . [1]

  7. NASA releases stunning images from Mars rover as it searches ...

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    The rover used its Mastcam instrument to capture the area on the 4,352 Martian day of the pioneering mission. Images of the area from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had shown light-colored ...

  8. Tony Spear - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Spear was an American space exploration project manager most notable for leading the Mars Pathfinder mission for JPL/NASA in 1996. [1] He retired from JPL in 1998. [2] He competed for the Google Lunar X Prize with Red Whittaker, Astrobotic, and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1962.

  9. Exploration of Mars - Wikipedia

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    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]