Mars Pathfinder was the first completed mission in NASA™s Discovery Program of low-cost, rapidly developed planetary missions with highly focused sci-ence goals. With a development time of only three years and a total cost of $265 million, Pathfinder was originally designed as a technology demonstration of a way to deliver an instrumented lander

2024年11月6日 · Mars Pathfinder Lander. Mars Pathfinder was originally designed as a technology demonstration to deliver an instrumented lander and a free-ranging robotic rover to the surface of the Red Planet.

Pathfinder's purpose is to demonstrate an innovative way of placing an instrumented lander on the surface of the planet. The lander will also carry a free-ranging robotic rover as a technolo-gy experiment. Landers and rovers of the future will benefit from the heritage of …

This figure shows the signature of a dust devil that passed over the Pathfinder lander on Sol 25. Since then we have seen several similar features. The black line shows surface pressure plotted over a period of approximately two minutes.

This is one of the first pictures taken by the camera on the Mars Pathfinder lander shortly after its touchdown at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time on July 4, 1997. The small rover, named Sojourner, is seen in the foreground in its position on a solar panel of the lander.

Like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander will dive directly into the Martian atmosphere, using an aeroshell and parachute scaled down from Pathfinder™s design to slow its initial descent.

The entry, descent and landing (EDL) process for Mars Pathfinder will begin days before landing when controllers at JPL will send commands to the spacecraft to tell it precisely when and how to begin the complex autonomous series of steps necessary to safely land on the surface of Mars.

The lander is positioned at the center of the blue "rays," and North is at the top. The prominent twin hills dubbed "Twin Peaks" are west of the lander, and the prominent large crater dubbed "Big Crater" is at center.

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