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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's ancient Pathfinder mission returned a truly stunning image of Mars that you've probably never seen.
- Pathfinder was launched in 1997 and died on Mars that same year.
- The mission included a lander and the Sojourner rover which, despite being designed to live for just a week, managed to spend over 80 days exploring the Red Planet.
If you were to see the image above out of context you'd probably already guess it's the landscape of Mars. The dry, dusty, orange sand and rocks are an iconic feature of the Red Planet. What you probably wouldn't guess is what piece of NASA hardware snapped the photo.
Your first guess would probably be the Curiosity rover. Nope. Perhaps the Opportunity rover, before its unfortunate demise? Wrong again. It's hard to believe, but this stunning photo was snapped by a lander that was only designed to last for a few months, and has now been dead for well over two decades. I'm talking of course about Pathfinder, which arrived on Mars way back on July 4, 1997.
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This might be the most gorgeous photo of Mars that NASA ever snapped originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 23:17:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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