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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
- Diameter
- 4.534
- Orbital period
- 1507.779133177419
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- provisional designation
- 1990 SB15
- time of discovery or invention
- 1986-10-02
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(9017) Бабаджанян (лат. Babadzhanyan) — типичный астероид главного пояса, который был открыт 2 октября 1986 года советским астрономом Людмилой Журавлёвой в Крымской астрофизической обсерватории и 9 марта 2001 года назван в честь композитора и пианиста Арно Бабаджаняна. 9017 Babadzhanyan Discovered 1986 Oct. 2 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Arno Arutyunovich Babadzhanyan (1921—1983) was an outstanding Soviet composer and brilliant pianist. He created romantic Heroic Ballade for piano accompanied by orchestra, a piano trio, violin and cello concerti and other chamber music. He also wrote many popular songs and music for plays and films. REF: 20010309/MPCPages.arc; MPC 42358 — Discovery Circumstances
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