Picture of the Day · NASA
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
- Diameter
- 6.833
- Orbital period
- 1495.323631890692
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- provisional designation
- 1989 GA2
- time of discovery or invention
- 1975-12-31
Article · Português
11441 Anadiego é um asteróide do cinturão principal de asteroides descoberto em 31 de dezembro de 1975 pelo astrónomo argentino Mario Cesco no Complexo Astronómico O Leoncito. Tem seu nome em homenagem a Ana Teresa Diego (1954–1976), uma estudante de astronomia do Observatório Astronómico A Prata desaparecida em setembro de 1976 por pessoas não identificadas supostamente trabalhando para a junta militar que governava na Argentina. * Excentricidade – 0.2585543 * Semieje maior – 2.56091716 unidades astronómicas * Inclinação orbital – 12.29030 graus * Período orbital – 1496.944 dias = 4,10 anos * Magnitude absoluta – 12,8
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