PIA04314: Six Wheels on the Soil
These stills are from the first rover movie which showed the rover being deployed and touching down on the Martian surface. NASA's Sojourner spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain. Sol 1 began on July 4, 1997.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Pathfinder (MPF) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Pathfinder Lander
 Instrument:  Imager for Mars Pathfinder 
 Product Size:  527 x 1270 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  California Institute of Technology 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04314.tif (225.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04314.jpg (147.9 kB)  

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These stills are from the first rover movie which showed the rover being deployed and touching down on the Martian surface.

Photojournal note: Sojourner spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain, acquiring images, and taking chemical, atmospheric and other measurements. The final data transmission received from Pathfinder was at 10:23 UTC on September 27, 1997. Although mission managers tried to restore full communications during the following five months, the successful mission was terminated on March 10, 1998.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2003-03-11