Just try and find somebody who hasn’t seen at least some of the stunning alien landscapes sent back by the Mars Pathfinder mission.

What do you do when your rover gets stuck on Mars? Why, get it unstuck, of course. That’s what NASA scientists were doing Friday to the Sojourner rover, which got jammed on a rock when one of its six wheels rolled up the side. The mishap occurred when a controller on Earth miscalculated the distance to the rock.

Perhaps it wasn’t a surprise that a Mars Pathfinder exhibit was one of the biggest draws at Planetfest last weekend, drawing crowds eight and 10 deep around a wall of video screens showing a rover’s-eye view of the Martian landscape.

NASA’s pint-sized Mars Pathfinder rover was on alien territory early Sunday EDT after engineers fixed a communications link that threatened to ruin its exploration of the Red Planet.

In a tribute to the late astronomer who turned on millions around the planet to the wonders of space, NASA on Saturday renamed the Mars Pathfinder lander the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.

By God, it worked! Against long odds, NASA’s Mars Pathfinder spacecraft survived a dive onto the Red Planet on Friday and began reeling off panoramic pictures of a burnt-orange river valley full of rocks, boulders, and ancient mountains.

A piece of the airbag that cushioned the intense arrival of Mars Pathfinder today has forced a one-day delay in the Sojourner rover

On this important day, the American people celebrate another exciting milestone in our nation’s long heritage of progress, discovery, and exploration: the first landing on the surface of Mars in over 20 years.

On its 221st birthday, the nation that revolutionized life on Earth with the automobile will put a motor vehicle on Mars. At 1:07 p.m. EDT on Friday, Independence Day, America’s Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will slam into the Red Planet, then bounce and roll to a halt in a cocoon of airbags. Then, over the weekend, a rover the size of a microwave oven will roll out onto the surface of Mars.

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, just 600 miles (1000 km) south of the Pathfinder spacecraft landing site.