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Sojourner rover on Mars surface - Artist view

author: S.Numazawa/Apb/Novapix

reference: e-son27-41010

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 12 cm

The Sojourner rover was the first Mars exploration rover that was launched on December 04 1996 and landed on Mars on July 04 1997. It returned 550 images of the martian surface.
The contact with the Mars Pathfinder was definitly lost on September 27 1997.

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ILLUSTRATION - MARS - MARS PATHFINDER - ROVER - SOIL - SOJOURNER - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -