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Jul 4, 2017 · Mars exploration took a big leap 20 years ago today. On July 4, 1997, NASA's Pathfinder mission touched down on the Red Planet, delivering an eponymous lander and a small rover called Sojourner ...
Launched in 2013 with the Chang'e 3 mission, it is China's first lunar rover, the first soft landing on the Moon since 1976 and the first rover to operate there since the Soviet Lunokhod 2 ceased operations on 11 May 1973.
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Dec 7, 2021 · NASA chose to name the rover after Sojourner Truth, an African-American reformist of the Civil War era, inspired by the winning essay submitted by 12-year-old Valerie Ambrose of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a naming contest organized by JPL and The Planetary Society. Left: Launch of Mars Pathfinder on Dec. 4, 1996. Right: Schematic of the Mars.
Jul 4, 2023 · Launched Dec. 4, 1996, aboard a Delta II rocket, Sojourner was part of the Mars Pathfinder mission: a low-budget program to send a lander and a small test rover to Mars to see if it was even ...
Jul 4, 2022 · NASA. 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 ...
Jan 3, 2004 · NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers were identical twin robots that helped rewrite our understanding of the early history of Mars. NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars on Jan. 3 and Jan. 24, 2004 PST (Jan. 4 and Jan. 25 UTC). The rovers were planned as 90-day missions to search for geological clues regarding ...
