On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet. The rover, named Sojourner, was the first rover to successfully ...

Although the rover was last seen in Pathfinder images located 43 feet (13 m) away, Sojourner kept driving after that. In December 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera snapped ...

Today's rover teams use tweets, TikTok, and livestreamed events to herald new findings on Mars. The much earlier Internet of 1997 saw frequent uploads of pictures to the Pathfinder website ...

Ares Valles is essentially the dried-up remains of a huge channel carved out of the surface of Mars by violent floods billions of years ago. When Pathfinder’s first images came back, they showed ...

Mission scientists and engineers celebrating Pathfinder’s Mars landing on July 4, 1997. MIKE NELSON/AFP/Getty Images Their fascination was merely a taste of what was to come. “The public ...

The images revealed ripple-like geographic ... robotic rovers have landed on Mars since Pathfinder's final transmission on September 28, 1997. These rovers provided (and still provide; the rover ...

“The lander was taking pictures of the rover when the rover was crawling ... Since 1997, there’s been a string of missions to Mars. Pathfinder and Sojourner set the stage for today’s Mars Exploration ...

Photos sent back by the rover ... the airbag-assisted landing,” says the Smithsonian's Matt Shindell, (above: Mars Pathfinder team members celebrating their success). “They used it on later ...

Want to know what Mars looked like when the first rover landed in 1997? NASA just released a 360-degree view video from images transmitted by the Pathfinder and Sojourner rovers from almost two ...

Mars Pathfinder and its small ... including tens of thousands of images, before it fell silent. The science gathered by the lander and rover suggested that Mars was warm and wet in its past ...

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The newest Mars orbiter returned images of the Pathfinder's 1997 landing site and revealed details the region's geology, NASA officials in California said.

They were constructed by the USGS shortly after the mission from stereo images acquired by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder. The x and y axes scales are in meters. Contour interval is 0.2 m on the ...