It was the size of a microwave oven. It weighed as much as a corgi. It traveled slower than a sloth. And as NASA's newest robotic rover, it made history as the first-ever wheeled vehicle to land on ...

In 1997, the spacecraft's mission paved the way for the more sophisticated rovers operating on the Red Planet today. Another July 4th Anniversary: Pathfinder's Landing On Mars Twenty years ago Tuesday ...

"It might be the right kind of crazy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world ...

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 land ...

Five years ago, on September 27, 1997, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began to lose communication and battery power to the Mars Pathfinder mission, ending its highly successful exploration.

It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags. NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed ...

It was a long shot that proved successful in the end. Twenty-five years ago today, a mission on Mars ended. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The Mars Pathfinder mission, launched in 1996, successfully landed the Sojourner rover on Mars in 1997, exceeding its planned operational lifespan of seven sols by a factor of over ten. Sojourner, a ...