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Mars Pathfinder ( MPF; englisch für Mars-Wegbereiter) war ein US-amerikanischer Mars - Lander, der 1996 von der NASA eingesetzt wurde. Er brachte den ersten erfolgreichen Mars-Rover Sojourner auf die Marsoberfläche. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Aufbau. 2 Missionsverlauf. 3 Trivia. 4 Fiktion. 5 Siehe auch. 6 Weblinks. 7 Einzelnachweise. Aufbau.
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.
- 890 kg (includes propellant)
- Lander · Rover
- 85 days, Launch to last contact: 9 months, 23 days
- December 4, 1996 06:58:07 UTC
4. Dez. 1996 · Mars Pathfinder used an innovative method of directly entering the Martian atmosphere and landing. From landing until the final data transmission on Sept. 27, 1997, Mars Pathfinder returned 2.3 billion bits of information, including more than 16,500 images from the lander and 550 images from the rover, as well as more than 15 ...
4. Dez. 1996 · The Mars Pathfinder mission, designed to demonstrate a low-cost method for delivering a set of science instruments to the Red Planet, was the first wheeled vehicle to be used on any other planet in the solar system and served as the foundation for the Mars rovers of today. Visit Mission Website.
27. Juli 2022 · NASA’s Sojourner Mars rover captured this image of the Pathfinder lander with airbags, now deflated, that were used to cushion the spacecraft during touchdown. The letters “JPL” and an American flag can be seen on the lander’s electronics box below the lander’s camera, which is mounted on a mast.
NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission -- the first spacecraft to land on Mars in more than 20 years and the first ever to send a rover out to independently explore the Martian landscape -- is set for touchdown July 4, initiating a new era of scientific exploration that will lead eventually to human expeditions to the red planet.
How appropriate then that 192 million kilometers (119 million miles) away from Earth, there was even more to celebrate: NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission had completed its seven-month journey by bouncing to a landing on Mars and opening up a whole new world of Mars exploration.
