The Mars Pathfinder mission, landing on July 4, 1997, delivered the Sojourner rover using a groundbreaking airbag landing system instead of rockets. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home from work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory holding a picture of the Martian surface to her steering wheel. Earlier that day, the agency’s ...

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 ...

THE Pathfinder probe dropped out of the Martian sky last night, hitting the ground like a giant beachball and bouncing 200 metres before coming to… ...

The Mars Pathfinder lander set down in an area called Ares Vallis — which, ... the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera snapped high-resolution images of Pathfinder’s landing site.

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.

Not only had Pathfinder landed on Mars, a feat all its own, but it had done so at a fraction of the cost and time required of previous Mars missions. And, the next day, ...

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

Using a sophisticated landing system unmatched until later NASA missions like Pathfinder and Spirit, Mars 3 successfully landed on the Martian surface 50 years ago on December 2, 1971, becoming ...

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.