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 ...

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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 ...

Later NASA probes, such as Pathfinder in 1997, would also use aerobraking and supersonic parachutes to land on Mars. But Pathfinder used a giant airbag for its final landing, cushioning the lander ...

If it hitched a ride to Mars, the helicopter would be latched onto the bottom of Perseverance. This raised a potential issue because if the rover landed on a large enough rock, it could get stuck.

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.