[DOC] [TLE] Mars Exploration Rover fact sheet - JPL - NASA [PAR] It landed close to a thin outcrop of rocks. Within two months, its versa- tile science 
... Sojourner, the rover on NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder ... Mars. Exploration 
Rover is more than 17 times as heavy as ... lander and the cruise stage for each. [DOC] [TLE] Mars Pathfinder - Wikipedia [PAR] Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) is an American robotic spacecraft that 
landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. ... This mission was 
the first of a series of missions to Mars that included rovers, and was the first .... 
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impacts,... [DOC] [TLE] Mars landing - Wikipedia [PAR] A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple 
attempted Mars ... For landers that are even heavier than the Curiosity rover (
which required a 4.5 ... All missions except Mars 7 sent back data, with Mars 5 
being most ... 1997, Mars Pathfinder returned 16,500 images from the lander and 
550... [DOC] [TLE] Mars Exploration Rover - Wikipedia [PAR] For the Mars rover that landed in 2012, see Curiosity (rover). For the generic topic
, see Mars rover. Artist's conception of rover on Mars. Timeline of the Mars 
Exploration mission. Part of a panorama taken by the Spirit in May 2004. NASA's 
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is an ongoing robotic space mission 
involving ..... Each rover was designed with a mission driving distance goal of just 
600... [DOC] [TLE] Curiosity (rover) - Wikipedia [PAR] Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of 
NASA's Mars ... The Bradbury Landing site was less than 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the 
center of .... each day, much more than the solar panels of the Mars Exploration 
Rovers, ..... On October 17, 2012, at "Rocknest", the first X-ray diffraction analysis 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Exploration of Mars - Wikipedia [PAR] The exploration of Mars is the study of Mars by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth
, beginning in .... Phoenix landed on the north polar region of Mars on May 25, 
2008. ... It is larger and more advanced than the Mars Exploration Rovers, with a 
... failed to reach orbit, Cosmos 419 (Mars 1971C), a heavy probe of the Soviet 
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heavy as ... MER-B This launch involved a longer coast time than MER-A to 
position the ... Spirit landed at Gusev Crater on January 3, 2004 and Opportunity 
touched .... Rover mission were the same type that Mars Pathfinder used in 1997. [DOC] [TLE] 6 Hard Facts About NASA's Next Mars Rover - Space.com [PAR] Sep 28, 2010 ... NASA's next Mars rover, the car-sized Curiosity, is gearing up for its 2011 launch 
... Curiosity is about the size of a Mini Cooper  much bigger than its ... Spirit and 
Opportunity, and the smaller Pathfinder rover. ... four times as heavy as Spirit and 
Opportunity, both of which landed in 2004. ... Most Popular. [DOC] [TLE] Mars Pathfinder - Lander, Landing, Spacecraft, and Space - JRank ... [PAR] The Mars Pathfinder probe landed on Mars on July 4, 1997. ... entry made a 
cheaper landing possible by allowing Pathfinder to convert most of its kinetic ... 
triangular airbags attached to Pathfinder, each approximately 17 ft (5.2 m) in .... 
Each probe, if successful, will deploy a rover that is approximately ten times 
heavier than... [DOC] [TLE] ``Mars Exploration Program''. In: Van Nostrand's Scientific ... [PAR] new enticements with each landing or orbital pass made by our spacecraft. ..... 
once it lands. See also Mars Exploration Rovers; Pathfinder Mission to Mars. [DOC] [TLE] Mars Curiosity Mission - Binder 3 - Scribd [PAR] During the long

Question: Each Mars rover is more than 17 times as heavy as this Pathfinder rover that landed on Mars in 1997
Answer: Sojourner