Mars Pathfinder was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station and a lightweight rover on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station after touchdown, and a 10.6-kilogram wheeled rover named Sojourner, the first rover to operate outside the Earth-Moon system. The mission was launched by NASA and directed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of NASA's Discovery Program.
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- The mission terminated in 1998
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It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg (23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, the first rover to operate outside the Earth-Moon system.
- Mars Pathfinder article, infobox
- In Group: NASA Stationary Mars Landers, lead sentence: American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars
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