the pathfinder mission was the first mission to ever send a rover to mars
a little thing called sojourner!
the pathfinder mission was the first mission to ever send a rover to mars
a little thing called sojourner!
the 11kg, six-wheeled robotic explorer was carried to mars on a delta ii rocket
launched on the 4th of december in 1996, from cape canaveral slc-17
arrival date was the 4th of july in 1997
from here, a signal takes 11 minutes to reach earth
target landing site: ares valles, approaching at 27,000km/h
phobos is a 100km wide a moon of mars,
orbiting so fast it rises and sets twice in a martian day!
