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Mars Pathfinder (1997)
Pictures from Mars, and 47 million hits in a single day.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 11
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
Ongoing: If you're losing here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 11 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 1997
JPL's mission website for Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner rover, which put pictures from the Martian surface online for everyone.
Pathfinder landed on Mars on 4 July 1997. JPL built a volunteer network of mirror sites to share the load and counted 47 million hits on 9 July alone, one of the biggest internet events up to then.
In 1997: Landed on 4 July; the Sojourner rover rolled off on the second Martian day and began studying nearby rocks.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Mars Pathfinder, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Mars Pathfinder in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
