Shows the path (with scale) of the drive on 1227. North is up on all of the JPL/NASA mission maps (unless otherwise stated)

  • @paulhammond5155OPEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    Sojourner and Zhurong? :)

    PrOP-M - 0 ft

    Sojourner - 330 ft

    Zhurong - 6,302 ft (~1.2 miles)

      • @paulhammond5155OPEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        AFAIK - The Russian space agency never provided an update on them. Pity, I’d like to have seen them operate ☺️

        • threelonmusketeersEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          It sounds like of the four missions containing PrOP-M rovers, only Mars 3 made it to a soft landing on the surface.

          The lander began transmitting to the Mars 3 orbiter 90 seconds after landing. After 20 seconds, transmission stopped for unknown reasons.

          Due to communication loss it is unknown whether the rover was deployed.

          • @paulhammond5155OPEnglish
            2•3 months ago

            I guess the world will have to wait for those future boots on the ground at the Mars 3 landing site to see if the rover was deployed. Deep down I hope it did get deployed and roved, even it was only a few centimeters / inches. Those boots will be long after I am pushing up the daisies, as I’m already older than dirt… :) But the young ones that follow these exploits on Mars will get to see what happened… :)