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Title: The Mars Path Finder


1
The Mars Path Finder
  • Jemel Bostic
  • www.NASA.gov

2
The Rover
  • The Mars Pathfinder was design for the soul
    purpose to be a demonstration of technology.
  • The Mars Pathfinder real name is called the
    sojourner named after an American Civil War
    soldier.

3
The Launch
  • They first launch Sojourner on December 4, 1996

4
The landing
  • The final landing transmission on was on
    September 27,1997
  • Which took a hole year for the sojourner to get
    to Mars

5
While on Mars
  • While the Path finder on mars it traveled 100
    meters ( 109 yards) over an entire year.
  • The Pathfinder found at least 2.3 billion bits of
    information such as.
  • 16,500 images from the rover
  • 15 chemical analyses of rock

6
More info
  • When the pathfinder was on mars it discovered
    that some point in time mars was warm and wet
    planet with water existing in its liquid state
    and with a thicker atmosphere.

7
The landscape
  • Now today on mars its just nothing but
    rocks,storms,cold climate, and frozen craters of
    ice.

8
Through the eyes of the pathfinder
  • Some of these pictures are from the the
    pathfinder itself and some are from other
    missions and satellites.

9
Pictures
  • This picture was taken by the by the Rover while
    it was traveling across the surface of Mars

10
Pictures
  • These pictures where taken by the Hubble
    telescope and other satellites but the picture on
    the right is a picture of Marss electric-dust
    storms and the other a full view picture of mars
    and it is today.
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