NASA’s impressive Mars helicopter has now clocked up a mile of flight across 10 separate missions. Ingenuity reached the milestone during its latest flight on Saturday, July 24.
The space agency’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is o…
Enlarge / Some seismic waves bounce off Mars’ core before reaching the InSight lander.
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We’ve learned a lot about our planet’s interior simply by tracking how the seismic energy released by earthquakes moves through or reflec…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is getting ready to collect its first rock sample that’s set to become the first-ever Martian material delivered to Earth.
The rover, which landed on the red planet in spectacular fashion in April, has been spending much …
China’s Zhurong rover visits its parachute and backshell on July 12. CNSA/PEC
China’s Zhurong rover is exploring the surface of Mars and recently stopped by the site of its parachute and backshell. It snapped the picture above, which was shared by Ch…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has performed so well during its test flights on Mars that the space agency has now put the aircraft to work.
Color images captured by its on-board camera during its ninth and most recent flight earlier this month are being …
A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover’s location in Gale Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Trying to find evidence of life on Mars isn’t a simple matt…
NASA’s Mars helicopter has now completed nine flights.
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On Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made its ninth and most ambitious flight yet.
This time, the space agency said, the tiny flier took to the skies for 166.4 seconds and reached a max…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter continues to scoot through the Martian sky, recently completing its ninth and most challenging flight to date.
The multi-rotor aircraft broke several of its own records during the flight, as confirmed by NASA’s Jet Propulsio…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English paleontologist. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Something complicated is going on with the presence of methane on Mars. Methane is an important chem…
Despite what you might imagine, the trickiest part of sending a rover to Mars isn’t the journey through space — it’s slowing down and landing once you arrive there. Mars’s thin atmosphere makes slowing using a parachute difficult, which is why Mars mis…