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

We look at the techniques of localization estimation used in the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover missions. We discuss the virtues and shortcomings of existing approaches and new ...

The Mars Pathfinder has helped pave the way for Martian exploration, but the rover’s aerodynamics — and thus our ability to optimize its movement on other planets — are not fully understood. Yu and Hu ...

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet. The rover, named Sojourner, was the first rover to successfully ...

NASA has used all kinds of techniques: The Pathfinder rover landed on Mars in 1997 inside a cluster of airbags, then rolled down its landing vehicle’s “petals,” which bloomed open like a ...

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.

More than two decades ago a small probe carrying an even smaller rover landed on Mars. Pathfinder and the Sojourner rover paved the way for sophisticated robotic explorers that have landed since 1997.

It was a long shot that proved successful in the end. Twenty-five years ago today, a mission on Mars ended. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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 ...