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Mars Pathfinder est une sonde spatiale de type atterrisseur, développée par l' agence spatiale américaine, la NASA, qui s'est posée sur le sol de la planète Mars le 4 juillet 1997 à Ares Vallis, dans la région de Chryse Planitia.
- Démonstrateur technologique
- JPL-NASA
- 4 décembre 1996
- Mission achevée
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.
4 déc. 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 déc. 1996 · Learn about the first wheeled vehicle on another planet, which landed on Mars in 1996 and explored the surface for 83 days. Find mission facts, images, instruments and more on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory website.
4 déc. 2020 · Mars Pathfinder was launched December 4, 1996 and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997. It was designed as a technology demonstration of a new way to deliver an instrumented lander and the first-ever robotic rover to the surface of the red planet.
7 déc. 2021 · Mars Pathfinder was the first spacecraft to use landing airbags and deploy a rover on Mars. Learn about its mission, instruments, landing site, and discoveries in this 25th anniversary article.
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.
