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Six Wheels on the Soil

These stills are from the first rover movie which showed the rover being deployed and touching down on the Martian surface. NASA's Sojourner spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain. Sol 1 began on July 4, 1997.
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These stills are from the first rover movie which showed the rover being deployed and touching down on the Martian surface.

Photojournal note: Sojourner spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain, acquiring images, and taking chemical, atmospheric and other measurements. The final data transmission received from Pathfinder was at 10:23 UTC on September 27, 1997. Although mission managers tried to restore full communications during the following five months, the successful mission was terminated on March 10, 1998.