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 ...
Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...
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 ...
New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the ...
Nasa's Mars Pathfinder mission revolutionised planetary exploration in 1997 with its innovative and unconventional landing ...