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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
- 1533.816474172375
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- provisional designation
- 1991 GN1
- time of discovery or invention
- 1985-12-18
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1171974857403611
Article · Deutsch
(5805) Glasgow ist ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels, der am 18. Dezember 1985 von dem US-amerikanischen Astronomen Edward L. G. Bowell an der Anderson Mesa Außenstelle des Lowell-Observatoriums (IAU-Code 688) im Coconino County im Norden des Bundesstaates Arizona entdeckt wurde. Der Asteroid gehört zur Eunomia-Familie, einer Gruppe von Asteroiden, die nach (15) Eunomia benannt wurde. Der Himmelskörper wurde nach der schottischen Stadt Glasgow benannt, der am Fluss Clyde gelegenen größten Stadt Schottlands.
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