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Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor Outreach CompilationThis videotape is a compilation of the best NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) videos of the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor missions. The mission is described using animation and narration as well as some actual footage of the entire sequence of mission events. Included within these animations are the spacecraft orbit insertion; descent to the Mars surface; deployment of the airbags and instruments; and exploration by Sojourner, the Mars rover. JPL activities at spacecraft control during significant mission events are also included at the end. The spacecraft cameras pan the surrounding Mars terrain and film Sojourner traversing the surface and inspecting rocks. A single, brief, processed image of the Cydonia region (Mars face) at an oblique angle from the Mars Global Surveyor is presented. A description of the Mars Pathfinder mission, instruments, landing and deployment process, Mars approach, spacecraft orbit insertion, rover operation are all described using computer animation. Actual color footage of Sojourner as well as a 360 deg pan of the Mars terrain surrounding the spacecraft is provided. Lower quality black and white photography depicting Sojourner traversing the Mars surface and inspecting Martian rocks also is included.
Document ID
19990116545
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Video
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
September 17, 1999
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Report/Patent Number
NONP-NASA-VT-1999206757
AVC-1998-179
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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