The Mars Pathfinder mission, landing on July 4, 1997, delivered the Sojourner rover using a groundbreaking airbag landing system instead of rockets.

NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed Sojourner, touched down in Chryse Planitia on July 4, 1997, atop its landing vehicle, Pathfinder.The pair of spacecraft heralded a revolution in Mars ...

On July 4, 1997, a small rover named Sojourner landed on Mars as part of the Pathfinder mission. Twenty-five years later, we still remember its amazing contributions.

The Sojourner rover onboard the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, taken after landing on July 4, 1997. The Pathfinder project was not the first attempted Mars mission. For decades, there was an ...

Launched Dec. 4, 1996, aboard a Delta II rocket, Sojourner was part of the Mars Pathfinder mission: a low-budget program to send a lander and a small test rover to Mars to see if it was even ...

Its price tag was a little north of $200 million. NASA's Mars Pathfinder Lander and the Sojourner Rover on Mars. During a conversation with Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina before Goldin ...

The Pathfinder project was not the first attempted Mars mission. For decades, there was an international push to send probes, spacecrafts, and rovers to Mars — many of which failed, repeatedly.

Seeing Like a Rover. University of Chicago Press, 2014. Rover Team. Characterization of the Martian surface deposits by the Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner. Science. Vol. 278, December 5 ...

Astronomers reflect on the 25th anniversary of the Mars rover landing, the first wheeled robot to roam a planet. Make Yahoo Your Homepage. Discover something new every day from News, ...

Pathfinder was launched in 1997 and died on Mars that same year. The mission included a lander and the Sojourner rover which, despite being designed to live for just a week, managed to spend over ...

That’s exactly what happened to an Airbus team tasked with making a rover for a Mars mission to gather up samples of martian material left for it by NASA’s Perseverance rover as part of a ...