When landing on Mars was nearly impossible, NASA engineers invented giant inflatable airbags to cushion the impact. This video reveals the story behind this remarkable technology used in the ...

The Mars Pathfinder mission, landing on July 4, 1997, delivered the Sojourner rover using a groundbreaking airbag landing system instead of rockets.

Five years ago, on September 27, 1997, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began to lose communication and battery power to the Mars Pathfinder mission, ending its highly successful exploration.

With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.

Mars Pathfinder and its small, six-wheeled Sojourner rover touched down on Mars on July 4, 1997. For almost three months, the lander beamed back billions of bits of data, including tens of ...

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.

Pathfinder was launched in 1997 and died on Mars that same year. The mission included a lander and the Sojourner rover which, despite being designed to live for just a week, managed to spend over ...

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 ...

The Mars Pathfinder lander set down in an area called Ares Vallis — which, by the way, is nowhere near and looks absolutely nothing like the place Watney digs the rover out of in The Martian.

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.

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.