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Mars Pathfinder Winds Down After Phenomenal Mission
November 5, 1997 — After operating on the surface of Mars three times longer than expected and returning a tremendous amount of new information about the red planet, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission is winding ... > full story -
Back On Track -- Mars Global Surveyor To Resume Aerobraking
October 31, 1997 — After a two-week hiatus, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flight team will resume lowering the spacecraft's orbit around Mars beginning Nov. 7. The effort will proceed at a more ... > full story -
Global Surveyor's Orbit Raised While Solar Panel Is Analyzed
October 15, 1997 — The lowest point of Mars Global Surveyor's aerobraking orbit has been raised temporarily, and aerobraking has been suspended while the flight team analyzes data to understand why one of the ... > full story -
UF Researchers: Nuclear Power Will Make Mars Trip Shorter, Safer
October 1, 1997 — As the world marks the 40th anniversary Saturday of the first Sputnik launch and the dawn of the Space Age, scientists at the University of Florida are working on a nuclear propulsion system they say ... > full story -
Mars Pathfinder Rover Exits Rock Garden To Begin Long Trek
September 27, 1997 — After 83 days of atmospheric, soil and rock studies, NASA's Mars Pathfinder is moving into extended mission activities that will take the rover on its longest trek yet, while the lander camera ... > full story -
Mars Global Surveyor Detects Martian Magnetic Field As Aerobraking Begins
September 18, 1997 — Scientists have confirmed the existence of a planet-wide magnetic field at Mars using an instrument on-board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter, as the spacecraft began to circle and study the ... > full story -
Mars Global Surveyor Mission Set To Begin Orbiting On Sept. 11
September 8, 1997 — For researchers like the University of Colorado at Boulder's Bruce Jakosky who are involved in NASA's unmanned Mars Global Surveyor mission slated to enter planetary orbit Sept. 11, patience ... > full story -
Mars Is a Peaceful Planet, Say Geologists
September 2, 1997 — While the NASA Pathfinder rover, Sojourner, sniffs rocks on the surface of Mars, geologists have completed their own analysis of Mars rocks here on Earth. Results of an analysis of tungsten isotopes ... > full story -
'Yogi' Rock Found On Mars Similar To Rocks Underneath 'Yogi' Berra Stadium, Geologist Says
August 13, 1997 — "Yogi," the rock that the Sojourner rover investigated on Mars, is remarkably similar to the rocks underneath recently dedicated "Yogi" Berra Stadium on the Montclair ... > full story -
Mars Pathfinder Results Generating New Picture Of Mars As Mission Moves Into Extended Operations
August 9, 1997 — NASA's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft -- a novel mission to send an inexpensive lander and roving prospector to the surface of Mars -- has concluded its primary mission, fulfilling all of its ... > full story -
Cornell Researcher Helps Interpret Images Taken By Mars Pathfinder Camera
July 3, 1997 — When Pathfinder lands on Mars on Independence Day, the images it sends back to Earth will be interpreted with the help of a Cornell University scientist. "We're looking for anything out of ... > full story -
Hubble's Look At Mars Shows Canyon Dust Storm, Cloudy Conditions For Pathfinder Landing
July 2, 1997 — Hubble Space Telescope pictures of Mars, taken on June 27 in preparation for the July 4 landing of the Pathfinder spacecraft, show a dust storm churning through the deep canyons of Valles Marineris, ... > full story
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