Pathfinder… Pathfollowers

In December of 1996 a Delta II rocket roared from the Cape Canaveral Air Station carrying a space craft called “Pathfinder.” Once the rocket had carried Pathfinder beyond the clutches of earth’s gravity, it was released and sent on its mission to the planet Mars. Traveling at great speed, and watched closely by scientists with giant dish radio antennas, Pathfinder arrived at Mars in July of 1997. July 4 it fell toward the surface of Mars, its parachutes opened to slow its decent, and giant...