The launch in late 1996 of the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover then was exciting news indeed. Before Spirit, the exceptionally long-lived Opportunity, and the relatively huge ...

Built and delivered to the launch pad in less than 18 months for a cost of less than 3% of the rover that it accompanied to Mars ... 1997 brought the success of Sojourner, and suddenly every ...

Nasa's Mars Pathfinder mission revolutionised planetary exploration in 1997 with its innovative and unconventional landing ...

On zooming in to the region, you can see the varied terrain of the Mars surface, beginning with the Pathfinder landing site where the Sojourner rover explored. Then the channel of the Ares Vallis ...