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Planetary Rovers
From Lunokhod and Sojourner through Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance, planetary turned a single landing site into a traversable scientific field laboratory.
- Missions
- 5
- People
- 0
- Vehicles
- 5
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Choose a path through the Planetary Rovers archive.
Planetary Rovers timeline
5 flights. One complete program record.
Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.
Defining milestones
The turning points that shaped this program and its legacy.
1970 · First planetary roverLunokhod 1Lunokhod 1 began remote traverses across the Moon.Explore milestone →- 1997 · First Mars roverMars Pathfinder / SojournerSojourner demonstrated mobile surface exploration on Mars.27-year leapExplore milestone →
- 2004–2018 · Marathon traverseOpportunityOpportunity set the off-world driving-distance record.7-year leapExplore milestone →
Every Planetary Rovers program record
All 5 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.
Launch corridor
5 flights and tests compressed into 1 expandable arc.
- Arc 01Ignition1970–2003 · 5 records
