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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
- 4.221
- Orbital period
- 1340.965712756161
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- provisional designation
- 1994 VE7
- time of discovery or invention
- 1990-08-26
Article · Русский
(9848) Югра (лат. Yugra) — типичный астероид главного пояса, который был открыт 26 августа 1990 года советским астрономом Людмилой Журавлёвой в Крымской астрофизической обсерватории и в 2000 году назван в честь Югры. 9848 Yugra Discovered 1990 Aug. 26 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Yugra is the historical name, used in Russia in medieval times, of the vast area to the east of the Northern Urals, extending to the river Taz. Inhabited then by the Hanty and Mansi tribes, it is now part of the territory of the Hanty-Mansi autonomous area within the Russian Federation. REF: 20001013/MPCPages.arc; MPC 41384 — Discovery Circumstances
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