On this day in 1997 - July 4th - NASA's Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars.

The robotic spacecraft consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner. It was the first successful Mars rover.


Mona Evans
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