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MARS PATHFINDER
The Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4,1997.
There once was a mission to Mars
That fell with a bounce from the stars
To study the mystery of life's early history
Preserved in the rocks & sand bars.
Peter Smith, University of Arizona
The Pathfinder team convened a press conference to unveil the panoramic color images the ship had beamed home.
For the first time in 21 years, a machine shot from Earth once again stirred up the Martian dust. More important, for the first time ever, it was going to be able to keep stirring it up well after it landed. Curled up inside Pathfinder like a mechanical kangaroo joey was Sojourney, a 1-ft tall, 2-ft long robot car, known as a rover, designed to trundle away from the lander and investigate rocks all over the desert-like site.
The touchdown was not without problems. Pictures like this one revealed that one of the airbags that cushioned the craft during its descent had bunched up in a way that hindered the rover from leaving the lander.
Here Is a huge pic of Mars pathfinder in GRAY-Scale
Clouds from Extended Mission Image Archive
Sunset Image from Primary Mission Image Archive
Super-pan octant S0184 This
enhanced color image mosaic of the Rock Garden area west of the lander was made using
images acquired in the mid-morning of Sol 32 by the IMP camera as part of the Super-Pan
data set.
At each camera frame position, a Super-Pan image contains fifteen frames---six frames for
three-color stereo and nine more individual narrow color bands. This mammoth color and
stereo data set will be used to derive high quality topographic maps of the surface and
detailed shapes of rocks and other surface features, and to map subtle chemical,
mineralogical, and textural variations on rocks and soils. Red, green, and blue filter
images from the right eye were combined to simulate slightly amplified natural color. The
"bookshelf" rocks visible in the background include Shark, Half-Dome, Moe, and
Stimpy. The rover Sojourner completed imaging and APXS measurements of these rocks on Sol
71. Small rocks below and to the right of Flat Top appear to have been moved and/or pushed
into the soil, probably by the spacecraft during landing. A portion of South Peak is
visible in the upper right corner of the mosaic. One of the solar-panel-covered lander
petals and the forward rover ramp are visible in the foreground.
This stereo image pair taken on the afternoon of Sol 71 (September 14) shows Sojourner leaving the "Rock Garden," an assemblage of large rocks behind and to the right of the rover. Sojourner's last target was the rock "Stimpy," seen at the far right.
This image montage shows every rover Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) deployment prior to Sojourner's entry into the "Rock Garden." The labels beneath each image are APXS measurement catalog numbers. Those not listed, such as A-1, were background measurements of the ambient Martian environment.
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Here Are some parts of the Pathfinder.
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