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 ...

Seven rovers have been sent to Mars, four successful, all of them robotically operated. The American rover Sojourner, Mars Pathfinder, landed successfully on July 4, 1997 and began sending back a ...

The first wheels on Mars were those of the Sojourner rover, which was a technology demonstration and part of NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission. Roughly the size of a microwave oven, Sojourner drove only ...

On Sept. 27, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission beamed its very last data transmission back to Earth. The Mars Pathfinder mission consisted of a base station and the very first Mars rover named ...