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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
- 1637.189018505416
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- orbital eccentricity
- 0.04922494518690488
- absolute magnitude
- 16.38
- mean anomaly
- 265.6250169426087
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(372578) Хромов (лат. Khromov) — типичный астероид главного пояса, который был открыт 24 октября 2009 года российским астрономом-любителем на станции Зеленчукская и в 2015 году назван в честь советского и российского астронома Гавриила Хромова. 372578 Khromov Discovered 2009 Oct. 24 by T. V. Kryachko at Zelenchukskaya Stn. Gavriil Sergeevich Khromov (1937—2014) was a Russian astronomer and organizer of science. From 1970 to 1991 he was Vice President of the All-Union Astronomical-Geodetic Society of the USSR, while from 1991 to 2014 he was President of the Interregional Astronomical-Geodetic Association. REF: MPC batch dated 2015-03-05; MPC 93068 — Discovery Circumstances
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