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Mars Pathfinder Mission Status
July 18, 1997
10:15 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
The Pathfinder lander and Sojourner rover concluded their 14th successful day of operations on the surface of Mars today, JPL engineers reported.

Highlights of the scientific data returned overnight include a series of images that show Sojourner approaching the white rock Scooby Doo and deploying the rover's X-ray spectrometer instrument to study the rock's surface. Imaging data from the lander's camera also included a high-resolution view of the northernmost of the Twin Peaks seen on the horizon from the landing site.

Pathfinder engineers said all subsystems on both the lander and rover performed flawlessly and that no resets of the lander's computer were detected.

On this Martian Day, Sol 14, Earth rise was at 6:07 p.m. PDT yesterday, sunrise was at 9:15 p.m. PDT, Earth set was at 7:46 a.m. PDT and sunset was at 10:12 a.m. PDT. The day's total data return from the Mars station was 58 megabits.

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