Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 27, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission beamed its very last data transmission back to Earth.The Mars Pathfinder mission ...

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... 25 years later, looking back on the accomplishments of ...

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.

This month saw a very special Martian anniversary, as NASA celebrated 25 years since the Pathfinder mission touched down on Mars. This mission included the first ever rover which explored Mars, called ...

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.

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 ...

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.

It was a long shot that proved successful in the end. Twenty-five years ago today, a mission on Mars ended. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...