Impact on Mars science While Sojourner strolled on the surface, Pathfinder was on a mission of its own. It relayed information from the rover to Earth and also took pictures of the Martian sky and ...

and the agency also sent the Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner rover mission to the Martian surface in 1997 with great scientific success, as it found round rocks that were likely shaped by water in ...

A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a ...

The competition follows in the tradition of previous Mars rover missions ... 12-year-old student from Connecticut suggested the name Sojourner, in honour of abolitionist and women's rights ...

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 ...

While on the hunt for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a mysterious field of white sulfur stones in a series of striking new images. Curosity - which left ...

Basic by today's standards, but considerably more advanced than the missions to Mars – for example, the Sojourner rover – that had gone before. Of the twin Mars exploration rovers, Spirit ...

NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers ... it would be such an amazing picture,” said Gorman. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its own "space litter" on June ...

If not for the delay to the launch of the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover mission, originally scheduled for 2022, Canada would have already had wheels on Mars. The wheels, chassis and drive ...

If not for the delay to the launch of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover mission, originally scheduled for 2022, Canada would have already had wheels on Mars. The wheels, chassis and ...

Since Nasa's first Mars rover Sojourner landed in 1997, the agency has sent two others - Spirit and Opportunity - that have revealed the geology of vast Martian plains and found evidence of past ...