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 ...
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home ...
More than two decades ago a small probe carrying an even smaller rover landed on Mars. Pathfinder and the Sojourner rover paved the way for sophisticated robotic explorers that have landed since 1997.