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
- Orbital period
- 1497.555522436654
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- provisional designation
- 2000 CV12
- time of discovery or invention
- 1990-10-10
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2520452372151908
Article · Deutsch
(19993) Günterseeber ist ein Asteroid des mittleren Hauptgürtels, der von den deutschen Astronomen Freimut Börngen und Lutz D. Schmadel am 10. Oktober 1990 an der Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (IAU-Code 033) in Tautenburg in Thüringen entdeckt wurde. Der Himmelskörper wurde am 15. Dezember 2005 nach dem deutschen Geodäten Günter Seeber (* 1941) benannt, der weltweit einer der bekanntesten Fachleute für Satellitengeodäsie ist. Der Asteroid gehört zur Astraea-Familie, einer Gruppe von Asteroiden, die nach (5) Astraea benannt ist.
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