OTD in space - July 4: Mars Pathfinder arrives on Mars

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red ...
SpaceRef

NASA’s Mars Pathfinder: Five Years Later

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.
SpaceNews

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images Mars Pathfinder Site

Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997 and continued operating until September 27 of that year. The landing site is on an ancient flood plain of the Ares and Tiu outflow channels. The image ...
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It's been 25 years since the landing of the Mars Pathfinder. Planetary exploration has never been the same.

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 ...
Inverse

25 years ago, NASA landed its first rover on Mars — and catalyzed the search for life

Twenty-five years ago on July 4, 1997, NASA landed its first rover on Mars and beamed back a photo from the planet’s surface. In doing so, the agency set up its first on-the-go, vehicular science lab ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Pathfinder’s Thrilling Mission

Almost three decades ago, Americans were awed by the pitch-perfect airbag-assisted landing and the deploying of the rover Sojourner David Kindy | Correspondent Once Pathfinder bounced to a stop, the ...