NASA is offering space fans the chance to come face to face with full-scale models of its trailblazing Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter.
The space agency is taking the models on a museum tour across the U.S. from the end of this month a…
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will be attempting another test flight this weekend, spinning its rotors faster than in any flight before to compensate for the changing weather on Mars.
In a tweet posted on Friday, October 22, NASA’s Jet Propulsion La…
A new time-lapse released by NASA shows its Perseverance rover speeding across the surface of Mars.
To be clear, Perseverance doesn’t really move that fast. The rover’s top speed on flat, hard ground is a mere 4.2-centimeters per second, or 152 meters …
Perseverance is the first Mars rover to include microphones, an advancement that’s opened up a whole new world of discovery for NASA scientists keen to learn more about the distant planet.
This week, the team overseeing the mission released a collectio…
Like any good tourist, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been snapping photos as it explores the wilderness of Mars. Now, NASA has released a stunning panoramic view of the Martian surface, composed of pictures taken by the rover.
Cropped version of a mos…
NASA has shared a video showing the complex series of steps required to bring the first samples of Mars rock to Earth.
The space agency’s Perseverance rover is currently drilling and caching samples from inside Mars’ Jezero Crater as part of a research…
Enlarge / New whole-hemisphere image of Mars captured by the UAE “Hope” probe.
Emirates Mars Mission
Since arriving at Mars eight months ago, the Emirates Mars Mission has quietly begun to deliver some intriguing scientific data about the Martian …
Mars today is a dry, inhospitable desert. But billions of years ago, it could have looked a lot like Earth, with liquid water flowing over its surface. Now, new analysis of data from the Perseverance rover confirms that the Jezero Crater, where the rov…
Enlarge / The rocks of Kodiak Butte record a lot of the history of Jezero Crater.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Normally, it takes some time for NASA’s Mars rovers to return scientific data. The instruments need to be calibrated and commissioned, and …
You can see NASA’s Perseverance rover as spotted from the Martian skies in this image, captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes Mars fr…