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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
"The almost 10-month Pathfinder mission and the 83-day journey of its accompanying Sojourner rover set the stage for the fleet of wheeled interplanetary explorers to follow.
"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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