Click the round buttons in the 3D scene to turn the rover and
use the sliders to control steering and suspension.


December 4th 1996, at 1:58 am EST, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center. On Independence Day 1997, Sojourner, named for Sojourner Truth the slave-born abolitionist and suffragette, rolled for the first time onto the rock-filled plain of Ares Vallis on the planet Mars. On February 6th, at 10:07 am PST, the engineers at SGI's Cosmo Software began working on a 3D web browser that would allow this experience to be brought home to every household and every computer in the world. Prepare yourself for Cosmo Player, real 3D for the web.




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