Mars Pathfinder, one of the Discovery class missions (quick. low-cost projects with focused science objectives), will land a single spacecraft with a microrover and several instruments on the surface of Mars in 1997. Pathfinder will be the first mission to use a rover, carrying a chemical analysis instrument, to characterize the rocks and soils in a landing area over hundreds of square meters on Mars, which will provide a calibration point or ground truth for orbital remote sensing observations.
The Mars Pathfinder Mission
1996-01-01
Miscellaneous
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pathfinder , Mars , rover , missions , Discovery , Pathfinder
NTRS | 1997
|Online Contents | 1998
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Mars Pathfinder mission operations concept
Online Contents | 1996
|Mars Pathfinder Mission Operations Concepts
NTIS | 1994
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