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What happened to the lander portion of Mars Pathfinder?
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post Jun 20 2007, 07:14 AM
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The large stationary part returned 16,000 images I saw somewhere. With its huge solar panels and presumably batteries, it should have been able to operate longer than the rover. What happened to it?
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- Geographer   What happened to the lander portion of Mars Pathfinder?   Jun 20 2007, 07:14 AM
- - djellison   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfind..._of_t...   Jun 20 2007, 07:24 AM
|- - Littlebit   QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 20 2007, 01:24 AM)...   Jun 20 2007, 01:35 PM
- - edstrick   My understanding (based on fragmentary discussions...   Jun 21 2007, 06:52 AM
- - MarsEngineer   Hi Edstrick, MPF (lander) did have software to wa...   Jun 22 2007, 02:14 AM
- - nprev   Write the book, Rob; I'll buy it! Hell, a...   Jun 22 2007, 02:30 AM
- - edstrick   <waves at Rob> That explains a lot. Runnin...   Jun 22 2007, 08:54 AM

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