When NASA's Sojourner became the first-ever robotic rover to land and operate on the Martian surface in 1997, it made decisions for itself. It had to—it was 140 million miles (225 million ...

Nasa's first wheeled robot, which landed on the planet in 1997, was called the Microrover Flight Experiment until a 12-year-old student from Connecticut suggested the name Sojourner, in honour of ...

Sojourner, the first rover ... There is a reason why NASA chose it as an exploration site: The mountain's rock layers show a dramatic shift in climate, from one with abundant liquid water to ...

NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working years ago. NASA's Opportunity rover's 2005 image of the remains of the heat shield that protected it as it made ...

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The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring ... and to listen to past episodes on Killers of the Flower Moon; NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission; an all-Black, all-women ...

The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...