SOJOURNER

Sojourner

Sojourner was the Mars Pathfinder robotic Mars rover that landed on July 4, 1997 and explored Mars for around three months. It has front and rear cameras and several science experiments. Designed for a mission lasting 7 sols, with possible extension to 30 sols, it in fact was active for 83 sols. The base station had its last communication with Earth at 3:23 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on September 27, 1997. The rover needed the base station to talk to Earth, despite still functioning at the time communications ended.

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sojourner

Noun

  1. A person who resides temporarily in a place.


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