Pathfinder Gets Hit Hard on the Internet

From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov (by way of Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>)
Subject: Pathfinder Gets Hit Hard on the Internet
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:37:43 -0500

FYI,

Jan Wee, Moderator




Brian Dunbar
Headquarters, Washington, DC                        July 9, 1997
(Phone: 202/358-0873)

Rich Pavlovsky
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(Phone: 818/354-5952)

RELEASE: I97-8

PATHFINDER GETS HIT HARD ON THE INTERNET

     Preliminary analysis of Mars Pathfinder Web sites show a 
steady stream of 45 million hits per day following the NASA 
spacecraft's landing on July 4. Project officials estimate the 
sites will have taken 265 million hits by midnight PDT July 9.

     On landing day, the 17 sites took approximately 30 million 
hits, and they have had a relatively constant level of activity 
since then.

     The primary Pathfinder Web server, at

                   http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov

has 17 reflectors around the world to try to provide quick access 
to information to a global audience.

     Webmasters at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory caution that 
these figures are preliminary and may be revised.

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