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The rover brought along the Ingenuity helicopter, the first to fly on another planet. Smoke simulation by Joel Adams. This ...
Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work ...
Its successors include the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which explored the planet for far longer than expected and returned more than 100,000 images before dust storms obliterated their solar ...
An unusual payload Image Credits:ispace Tenacious was designed to be both small and light, weighing about five kilograms — half the weight of NASA’s Sojourner Mars rover.
Crank up a playlist inspired to wake up a robot on Mars. NASA engineers have picked songs to greet their sleeping Opportunity rover on Mars, which survived a Martian dust storm in June but is yet ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...
The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...
Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...