The Sojourner rover was a vehicle that reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days), and was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon. The landing site was in the Ares Vallis channel in the Chryse Planitia region of the Oxia Palus quadrangle. The rover was equipped with front and rear cameras, and hardware that was used to conduct several scientific experiments.
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The Sojourner mission formally ended on March 10, 1998
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Sojourner was developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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The Sojourner rover was a vehicle that reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
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The first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon.
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It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner
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