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25 years ago, NASA Landed Its First Rover on Mars -- And Catalyzed the Search for Life

04 Jul 2022 | Abstracted from Inverse

"Pathfinder and Sojourner returned more than 12,500 images from the planet's surface, conducted more than a dozen chemical analyses of Martian soil, and found evidence that supported Viking's findings that water may have once flowed on Mars’ surface.

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