i don't know when it was launched but it had to investigate the geology of Mars
it took the mars pathfinder 211 days to get to mars.
1:58am (EST) December 4th 1996 and landed on mars on July 4th 1997 and continued operating until September 27th that year
In 1997, the only Mars rover launched was Sojourner, as part of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission.
The first Mars rover, Sojourner/Pathfinder, was launched on that date.
The first Mars Rover, Spirit was launched on the 10 of June 2003. Strictly speaking there was an earlier one, but it was only a little rover called "Sojourner". That landed on Mars in1997.
MESUR Pathfinder
There have been 5 rovers sent to Mars: Mars 2 Prop-M rover was launched by a Proton K Rocket and carried by the orbiter. Mars 3 Prop-M rover was launched by a Tyazheliy Sputnik Rocket and carried by the orbiter. Sojourner rover was launched by a Delta II rocket and carried by the Pathfinder Orbiter Spirit Rover was launched by a Delta II rocket and carried by its orbiter. Opportunity was launched by a Delta II rocket and carried by its orbiter.
According to 'www.spacetoday.org': The Pathfinder interplanetary spacecraft from Earth ended its epic, 309-million-mile journey on July 4, 1997, by successfully delivering a pyramid-shaped Mars station, complete with camera, weather tower and instrument-laden rover named Sojourner, in an historic safe landing on the Martian surface at 17:07 GMT.
Pathfinder and Sojourner are both missions sent to Mars by NASA. Pathfinder was a lander that carried the Sojourner rover, which became the first rover to explore Mars' surface in 1997. Pathfinder and Sojourner were instrumental in studying Mars' geology, climate, and potential for life.
"After the Mars pathfinder landed on the planet Mars" is not a sentence. You must complete this sentence by making it read something like the following: After the Mars pathfinder landed on the planet Mars, it took pictures of the geographical features.
Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975, and the second craft, Viking 2, was launched on September 9, 1975. Viking 1 entered Mars orbit on June 19, 1976. The Viking 1 touched down on the surface of Mars on July 20, 1976, and was joined by the Viking 2 on September 3.
*mars odyssey *mars global surveyor *mars pathfinder