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 Mars Pathfinder lander set down in an area called Ares Vallis — which, by the way, is nowhere near and looks absolutely nothing like the place Watney digs the rover out of in The Martian.

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.

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 ...

It was the size of a microwave oven. It weighed as much as a corgi. It traveled slower than a sloth. And as NASA's newest robotic rover, it made history as the first-ever wheeled vehicle to land ...

Later, the Mars Global Surveyor launched on November 7, 1996 — a few weeks before Pathfinder — and entered orbit around Mars on September 11, 1997. Its price tag was a little north of $200 ...

While the United States has led in Mars rover exploration, it is not the only player on the scene. In May 2021, China became the second nation to successfully place a rover on Mars.

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

The Opportunity rover landed in rockier terrain, so it hasn't been going as fast or as far as the Spirit. Spirit landed on a smoother surface, and has managed three kilometers, or two miles, on Mars.