By the 1980s and early 1990s the Space Race had cooled down, the bean counters moved in, and aside from the spectacular images of the ... in late 1996 of the Mars Pathfinder mission with its ...

Mars is often seen as a barren ... came over two decades ago, when the Pathfinder mission spotted them in 1997. Curiosity didn’t capture its first images of iridescence until 2019, and this ...

The images, which were captured on Jan ... They were first spotted back in 1997 by NASA's Pathfinder mission from just north of Mars' equator. "I'll always remember the first time I saw those ...