NASA’s Mars helicopter has taken to the skies again after a lengthy break due to bitterly cold conditions on the distant planet.
The space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is overseeing the current Mars mission, took to Twitter to share …
Good news for the hardy little Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which has braved the Martian winter thus far and will soon be getting back into the air. The helicopter has been taking a break from flight since July as it deals with cold seasonal temperatures…
Today NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 10 years on Mars, and it’s still going strong since its landing on August 6, 2012. As the first of a new design of Martian rover along with Perseverance, Curiosity has not only provided illuminating scientific in…
This month saw a very special Martian anniversary, as NASA celebrated 25 years since the Pathfinder mission touched down on Mars. This mission included the first ever rover which explored Mars, called Sojourner, and opened the door to modern Mars explo…
NASA has announced a dramatic change to its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which will attempt to transport rock and soil from the martian surface all the way to Earth.
The space agency’s Perseverance rover is currently exploring Jezero Crater on Ma…
The sights of Mars are many and marvelous — and the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Mars Express orbiter recently captured one of the planet’s wonders, the Valles Marineris canyon system.
This enormous canyon system is nearly 2,500 miles long and over 12…
NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has shared some remarkable images of different rock formations at its next exploration site.
The rocks are located in the area of an ancient river delta inside Jezero Crater that scientists believe has the best chance o…
NASA’s Mars rover recently made a surprise discovery on the distant planet, though sadly it’a not quite the evidence of ancient microbial life that scientists are hoping to find there.
Because it’s a piece of trash.
Specifically, the object, pictured b…
The surface of Mars is dotted with craters, created when asteroids, meteoroids, or comets smashed into the planet and caused large impact marks. Unlike Earth, which has relatively few impact craters because of its tectonic processes, on Mars, these cra…
It’s a lonely life for a rover on Mars, but the Perseverance rover has some company now in addition to its helicopter buddy Ingenuity. Perseverance picked up a rock hitchhiker which has been riding in the rover’s wheel for the past four months.
NASA re…
Mars is an inhospitable place for many reasons, from the freezing temperatures to the radiation which bombards its surface. But one other feature of the planet makes it tricky to get by there as well: It is covered in dust. Fine dusty particles cover t…
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, a Mars orbiter that is now almost a decade old, is back up and running following a scare that saw it put into safe mode for several months. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN craft resumed science operation on May 28, 2…
The Ingenuity helicopter may be struggling to cope with the dust and cold on Mars, but it’s still sending back invaluable data to Earth. Recently, NASA scientists put together images taken from its longest flight to date to create a stunning video, sho…
NASA’s InSight lander is set to end operations on Mars after four years of service.
At a special meeting of key InSight mission personnel on Tuesday, May 17, it was confirmed that increasing amounts of dust on the lander’s two 7-feet-wide solar panels …
NASA’s InSight Mars lander has just detected the strongest quake ever observed on another planet.
The marsquake, which took place on May 4, registered at magnitude 5, easily beating the previous magnitude record of 4.2 in a quake detected by InSight in…