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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 launched Dec. 4, 1996 and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997. It successfully delivered an instrumented lander and the Sojourner rover, the first-ever robotic rover to land and operate on the Martian surface.
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.
Learn about NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, which landed in 1997 and deployed the first-ever rover on Mars. Discover how Pathfinder paved the way for future missions, studied Martian rocks and soil, and popularized online image sharing.
Mars Pathfinder is one of the first of NASA's Discovery class of missions, designed to foster rapidly developed, low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science objectives. Pathfinder's purpose is to demonstrate an innovative way of placing an instrumented lander on the surface of the planet.
