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 ...

Yet not much has changed since the days of the Sojourner rover of the Pathfinder ... As it does when it comes to rocket engines and spacecraft, NASA is also constantly researching new rover ...

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