Silicon Graphics Supercomputers
Help Pave Path to Mars
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To the general population, the year 1997 will be remembered for many
events, but for engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California, it will be the year that catapulted
them to the forefront of an electronic event that was unequaled in 20th
century communications.
On July 4, when Pathfinder transmitted its first signals and images of the mysterious red planet, it took only 11 minutes to boldly go where no one had gone before. |
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| Sojourner™, Mars Rover™ and Pathfinder Spacecraft Design and images are Copyright ©1996-1997 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. |