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On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest day trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...
The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.
New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...
Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right—and how things could quickly go ...
The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...
NASA shared: "NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28 - the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission ...
NASA is planning an ambitious mission to collect the rover's samples and bring them home in the 2030s for scientists to study in person. Perseverance went on to collect a second sample from Rochette.
NASA released new photos from its Perseverance rover’s landing on Mars. NASA/Twitter One image was taken as Perseverance was approximately seven feet (2 meters) above the surface of Mars.
The rover and its attached helicopter, called Ingenuity, landed on Mars Thursday, February 18. After landing, the rover relayed back data and images using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
Using spare parts and mission plans developed for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, the space agency says it can build and launch a new rover in 2020 and stay within current budget guidelines.
NASA officials revealed on Thursday the new name of the 2020 Mars rover: Perseverance. The space agency named Alexander Mather, a seventh grader from Lake Braddock Secondary School in Virginia, as ...