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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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1996-12-04 1
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Wikimedia FoundationMars Pathfinder article, lead section
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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
1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationMars Pathfinder article, infobox
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