Mars Pathfinder - 20th Anniversary Special

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander and Sojourner rover successfully landed on the Red Planet utilizing a revolutionary airbag landing system. This special 20th anniversary show chronicles the stories and the people behind the groundbreaking mission that jump-started 20 years of continuous presence at Mars. Guests include: Former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, former JPL Directors Ed Stone and Charles Elachi, JPL Director Michael Watkins and Pathfinder mission team members Jennifer Trosper and Brian Muirhead. Recorded June 27, 2017 at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; aired on NASA TV on July 4, 2017.

[@ddubov]

Bravo to all of my former colleagues on the mission! And thank you, Administrator Goldin, for publicly recognizing the role the website played in the mission. Pathfinder Webmaster David Dubov

[@iliketurtles2169]

RIP: Mars Pathfinder You and the rover you brought to Mars have sparked inspiration and have started a tradition to learn.

[@jonglewongle3438]

The 1997 Pathfinder was the first Mars surface images since the Viking Landers. The airbag thing worked, the package unravelled correctly, and the rover rolled down correctly. The first rover, Soujourner. It went for about 10 yards. It had provision to climb over objects but if it flipped it was history. They had some kid sending commands to it and it would take 8 minutes for each command to move it a few millimeters. He impacted some nearby rock [ authorised manouver ]. Several billion dollars to have a wide panorama view of two hills in the Martian distance, one pointy, the other flat-topped.

[@DivyanshMMMUT]

Perseverance just landed to continue your legacy dear Pathfinder and your pal Sojourner

[@Alaninbroomfield]

I'm not much of a science or astronomy guy, but I very much respect the work that was done by this team. Well done. Just wanted to say it.

[@TechNed]

Brave people to take on such risky endeavours to their careers. Inspirational stuff.

[@strontium9041]

Just hope that one day Matt Damon can dig it up and use it to communicate to earth

[@tntbuffalogaming]

I know right!

[@alexisdespland4939]

you mean mike weir. matt damon is an actor who will probably be retired and may be deaf by then .

[@amandasaintil3600]

Earth

[@itsmikoton]

I don't get why he took the tiny rover in the movie he never used it

[@itsmikoton]

@Friday Goood I did never saw it afterwards

[@brfritos]

Just a curiosity: the narrator is the same one that explain the codex in Mass Effect games. Just one more thing to love about NASA.

[@happyicare5053]

It's good to see the faces of the brilliant people who usually work behind the scenes

[@mrmadmaxalot]

Gosh, this is friggen epic. Too bad it took me till now to find it. Pathfinder was one of the most important missions for me as a young person, so it is very fascinating to hear this and learn more about the context.

[@pavicopter]

Excellent meeting. Here we can understand of the real promoters of the visionary and almost impossibly NASA mission to planet Mars. My name is Dario Mendoza (NY). Felicidades!

[@rogerfagg9136]

Happy anniversary Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner - thanks for all your discoveries

[@scififanman]

17:16 It worked very well! Congrats. I hope we recover Pathfinder rover someday, or just build a park where it lays.

[@ZeedijkMike]

What a beautiful way to end a great anniversary special.

[@christiansiegert9895]

This video brought tears to my eyes. Great panel, great stories, great accomplishments!

[@Astrostevo]

Beautiful. Love those clips at the end especially but great discussion and video. Fond Pathfinder memories from watching - and reading in the newspaper and later in books too. Thanks NASA JPL.

[@TheConorsmithusa]

51:43 awesome split !

[@MannyCAE]

Thanks for all you do NASA JPL🙌🏾

[@dylannnnnnnnn]

Thank you

[@happyicare5053]

Congratulations on the anniversary! !

[@zapfanzapfan]

Cheers for a job well done and to another 20 years of continuous Mars exploration! I hope to see deep drilling, sample return and manned (and womened) exploration in that time. Good stories btw, I wish my mom could set me up with someone like Jennifer ;-)

[@juancarlosocampo3952]

Great scene of Curiosity..

[@SophyaAgain]

I'm here because of the Matt Damon's "The Martian". BTW I loved the movie.

[@wyattbair01]

i love this mass effect mod

[@xalau5270]

My first internet experience was visiting the JPL website because i wanted to see Mars Pathfinders´s photos

[@fatman5046]

I love real science and technology!

[@juancarlosocampo3952]

Congreatturetions Dear Friends.. today in on special Video fantastics..

[@lorismartinoperfetto6908]

I love that little pretty rover

[@prokjs]

My dream is astronomer and to join NASA in the future

[@MattJohno2]

Go ahead! Working at NASA would be a great honour, and you'll see all the behind the scenes! Good look!

[@EchoesDistant]

Study up on as much science as you can! May you have the best of luck. physicsdatabase.com/book-list-by-title/

[@SophyaAgain]

Dream big. You only live once.

[@dylannnnnnnnn]

I just got an invite to work at nasa after the lockdown

[@KnowledgeEnthusiast]

950th Like From INDIA. INDIA is Developing & Growing very Rapidly in the field of Aerospace and Aeronautics Engineering & Technology Sector. Jai Hind Vande Matram.

[@Requie9m7]

I thought the Pathinder mission was for Andromeda. Now they have brought the mission so close to home.

[@PAULLONDEN]

All this exploration and science that made America in the eyes of the world truly great. Yet some Washington entities don't have this congressional oversight and budget cuts....How can that be ?

[@mesofius]

Silly little rover you say? I love him.

[@cyberbeefpv2810]

thanks!

[@mariadiazkremer5634]

Loved the video! Looking for the tv interview where they talked about the tequila bottle that was on the line for winners.

[@kaltruku]

Es interesantisimo que pueda estar en activo tanto tiempo,con la tecnologia de aquella epoca.

[@blkinvestor]

I rememebr downloading the images on dialup on to my computer when i was in 4th grade...

[@ViperPilot16]

Pathfinder will greatly be missed. I would be pretty cool if a Astronaut could recover the lander when we make it to Mars.

[@supernova2958]

Don't forget little Sojourner

[@BULLIBULBUL]

[@teslatonight]

Mars exploration community love!! 🤖🧡 #DogelonMars

[@jamesevans1601]

It's chilling to see this in 2024 and hear them talk about what was to become Ingenuity. Their gamble paid off yet again.

[@yonatangarces9702]

Algún día recuperaremos la pathfinder y estará en un museo como el santo grial de los rover

[@TharakaChathuranga]

This might be a totally different request. What is the background music after 50:48

[@lucasli7640]

I think it is Heroic Destiny.

[@lucasli7640]

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[@sunny_ua]

The narrator has a familiar voice. Didn't he vioice Codex in Mass Effect games?

[@TheChico868]

There is no success without failure.

[@MichaelBrown-fk2gt]

I still don't know how much of these technologies work in the vacuum of space ?

[@101shapshifter]

Here's something interesting, I was born the day before the Mars Pathfinder launched.

[@dylannnnnnnnn]

I was born the day it landed.

[@revillj1]

Préservation says thanks Pathfinder

[@ares12265]

So, he found a normal base for the airfield, just in case?

[@ratprincess]

Daring mighty things.

[@verakoc1990]

Te isha vetem nje mendim i ndjenjave. shhpirterore te te. gjithe. atyre. shkencetareve qe me shume mendime te zgjuara njerezore , do. ishte ne enderr. shum. e. bukur qe do. me. lumturonte. tere jeten .Lumturi ne te gjitha. aspektet e. jetes. .

[@evangeliovsreligioncatolic5375]

excelente

[@ludmilaclemente4294]

O dinheiro físico acabou e o virtual o limite é o espaço.

[@freddiehunter1079]

Why the Pathfinder Rover's MARS photos be released much less than other Mars Rovers'?

[@Igotnogod]

they released all the photos the rover took.

[@freddiehunter1079]

Igotnogod I don’t think so

[@ftoalan]

So there we have it people!!!! the Military do have space craft after all. just listen at 14:57 "military developing small spacecraft"

[@copperNick-North]

At the instant 56:58 of this video, I seem to see, I am not saying that it is, in the center of the photo, a vapor pressure outlet from the rocks ( ice crystals ?, CO2?, ...), on the left what could be the fall of water from a dam. I have even imagined a rock being launched from the wall. ( right down next some shape of stone like a tongue ) A video sequence to show "things that move" on Mars would be great. An orbiter moves very fast, it may not be able to take a sequence of frames at the same instant.

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

Is the guy on the left the bureaucrat? He never missed an opportunity to throw in non-science buzzwords and meaningless jargon. It was like listening to an ENRON executive.

[@CloroxBleach-sz6bg]

Would have been nice to see the copter with mars 2020 tho xd

[@ratprincess]

Take risk but don't fail. lol

[@treelonmusk8324]

Make a documentary about it we wanna know facts not just old ppl talking lol

[@Yojimbokun]

grand mof tarkin?

[@jeffkey5335]

Make earth great again Jesus loves you guys tekel

[@johnpatricklim4509]

Pathfinder saved Mark Watney....

[@marcjaworskyj4766]

🗿

[@aliederrick8264]

Go space x

[@rustyshackelford6509]

People are starting to know that Mars is on devon island

[@earth111]

I have a truck in space

[@zygmaszel8376]

Land Reclamation start now 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌲 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳

[@jamesolivergarciatheu.n.so2954]

any girls dtf???? kaley???? babe...u dtf darling??? magically find me and wear no chonies....and take me home with u...gracia mama!!-James ur papacito that loves u!!

[@epikmurk9084]

w

[@JubiTheVille]

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[@dylannnnnnnnn]

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[@dylannnnnnnnn]

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[@peachtrees27]

$25 million for that Big Trak? Peanuts!

[@dougwilliams8602]

There is no life on the moon or Mars

[@peatmoss4415]

Zzzzz....

[@paulskillman6634]

The Russians must be laughing.not to mention the Chinese.

[@rache6679]

FAKE

[@michaelleib794]

got to have green eyes 6 foot to be on mars #taylorswift #nasa #tmz

[@alangarland8571]

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