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After researching the collision of race, gender, and automation in the Pathfinder Mission, I experimented with the idea of a lonely hacker summoning the discarded, lovesick Sojourner Rover from the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission.
Springtime for Mars is an offshoot of Agenda for a Landscape, a DVD title and companion Web site project that investigates the collisions of gender, history, and technology in the 1996-7 Mars Pathfinder mission. Launched on 4 December 1996, the Pathfinder lander contained the battery-powered, six-wheeled Sojourner rover, named in honor of Sojourner Truth. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory permanently lost contact with the lander, a.k.a the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, on 24 September 1997. Springtime for Mars explores a fictional scenario in which a young hacker reestablishes contact with the Sojourner rover.
Springtime for Mars is an offshoot of Agenda for a Landscape, a DVD title and companion Web site project that investigates the collisions of gender, history, and technology in the 1996-7 Mars Pathfinder mission. Launched on 4 December 1996, the Pathfinder lander contained the battery-powered, six-wheeled Sojourner rover, named in honor of Sojourner Truth. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory permanently lost contact with the lander, a.k.a the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, on 24 September 1997. Springtime for Mars explores a fictional scenario in which a young hacker reestablishes contact with the Sojourner rover.