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Pathfinder on Mars

Pathfinder on Mars

2026-07-04

On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. After its then novel airbag-assisted landing sequence was completed, Pathfinder transmitted this color mosaic to mission operators on Earth. In the scene from another world, the Mars Sojourner robot rover is visible in the foreground, crouched on top of the unfolded Pathfinder. About the size of a large house cat, the six-wheeled, solar-powered Sojourner became the first successful Martian rover. Surrounding Pathfinder are deflated airbags and the rock-strewn terrain of the Ares Vallis floodplain. In the distance Martian hills appear against a dusty brownish sky. The Pathfinder lander was subsequently renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.

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Wikidata facts

Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
Apollo asteroid
Orbital period
1356.662773758216
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orbital inclination
3.945990054898771
time of discovery or invention
2008-04-29
absolute magnitude
24.8
orbital eccentricity
0.6591775038466967
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.398367079321936
periapsis
0.8174174546664098
apoapsis
3.979316703977462
longitude of ascending node
228.8597776826151
argument of periapsis
60.3725600485019
mean anomaly
347.5108989398891
time of periapsis
2454637.565273572
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