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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
- Mission achevée
- 4 décembre 1996
- JPL-NASA
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 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 · 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.
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
4 déc. 2020 · Mars Pathfinder. 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 · Favorable launch opportunities to Mars occur every 26 months, and during the late 1996 window, the United States dispatched two spacecraft to the Red Planet – an orbiter called Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Pathfinder, a lander that deployed the first rover on Mars. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California ...
