Mars pathfinder

- Keval Shah
Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) is an American robotic
spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe
on Mars in 1997. ... The mission carried a series of scientific
instruments to analyze the Martian atmosphere, climate, and
geology and the composition of its rocks and soil. The Mars
Pathfinder mission, designed to demonstrate a low-cost
method for delivering a set of science instruments to the Red
Planet, was the first wheeled vehicle to be used on any other
planet in the solar system and served as the foundation for
the Mars rovers of today.
Mars Pathfinder was launched December 4, 1996 and landed
on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997. It was designed as a
technology demonstration of a new way to deliver an
instrumented lander and the first-ever robotic rover to the
surface of the red planet. Although the mission was planned to
last from a week to a month, the rover operated successfully
for almost three months. Communication failed after October
7, with a final data transmission received from Pathfinder at
10:23 UTC on September 27, 1997.
The Pathfinder mission led to multiple scientific discoveries
about the red planet, including the following: Panoramic
images of Pathfinder's landing site at Ares Vallis and the
presence of rounded pebbles and cobbles suggested
that Mars had a warmer, wetter past. After traveling 120
million miles in seven months, NASA's Mars
Pathfinder becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to land
on Mars in more than two decades.
Mars pathfinder wasn’t a successful on mars but it was also
known as the lightest and fastest rover that reached on mars. The
mars pathfinder went to mars by the rocket delta ll.