Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet.

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 ...

NASA’s first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis ...