Mar 10 1998
From The Space Library
NASA officially declared Mars Pathfinder "dead" six months after its mission ended, after getting no response to one last set of commands. Pathfinder's mission had ended on 27 September 1997, when NASA lost communication with the craft. Pathfinder and its rover Sojourner had landed on Mars on 4 July 1997, and NASA had expected the two craft to "live" on Mars for only 30 days. However, Pathfinder had exceeded its mission by eight weeks, and Sojourner had roamed the Martian terrain 10 weeks longer than the originally planned one-week operation.
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