1997

Events

• The first rover vehicle launched by Earth's United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration lands on Mars.
  The site, at Carl Sagan Memorial Station, is preserved as a Mars Heritage Site by the Mars Historical Preservation Society.

• GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.

• Scientists announce that an adult sheep named "Dolly" has been successfully cloned, born in July 1996.

Timeline
1996	1997	1998