I was only about the size of a microwave oven. But a whole new world was waiting for my wheels.
On July 4, 1997, Pathfinder brought me to Mars. I rolled down my ramp into a rocky landscape that no rover had explored before.
For 83 Martian days, I studied stones and soil. I proved that a little machine could move across another planet.
When our lander fell silent, my journey became a memory. Every rover that followed carried a little of my courage.
An interpretive first-person story inspired by NASA mission records. These are not actual messages transmitted by the spacecraft.