NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a little while now. It landed successfully in late February and spent a good chunk of March just testing its various systems and ensuring that everything was still in working order after its long journey from Earth. Now, as the rover waits patiently for the tiny Mars …
Humans may one day travel to the surface of Mars. In fact, NASA has tentative plans to launch a mission to Mars at some point in the 2030s, but at the moment those plans are little more than scribbled on the back of a napkin. In the meantime, NASA and other space agencies are wasting …
NASA’s shiny new Perseverance rover has been hanging out on the Martian surface for about two weeks now. It hasn’t conducted much in the way of scientific observation, but that’s because it’s still waking up from the months-long, ice-cold nap that it took during the trip from Earth to the Red Planet. The rover appears …
NASA’s new Perseverance rover has been on Mars for less than two weeks, but science fans are already chomping at the bit for any news they can get related to the mission. What will the new rover find? Will it be able to detect ancient organic compounds or possibly even signs of long-dead life forms? …
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission arrived at the Red Planet two weeks ago, and we’re just now getting our first look at the landing site from above. The ExoMars orbiter, which is a joint project between the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos, flew over the Jezero Crater where the rover landed and took some snapshots …
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landing was a huge event last week, but there was probably something you missed. During the landing, cameras affixed to the rover’s descent hardware captured images of the massive parachute with a very unique pattern. It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to decipher the code and figure out what it …
NASA successfully landed its Perseverance rover on Mars last week, and the rover is already sending back some truly stunning images and video from its brief time on the planet. In a new 360-degree video published to YouTube, we get to see the entire landing site, and you can pan and zoom to your heart’s …
NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars was a huge milestone in the mission. The rover stuck its landing perfectly, and we were quickly treated to a photograph showing the rover during its landing sequence. Now that the rover has had a chance to send back a whole bunch of data, NASA has published a full …
NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, successfully landed on the Red Planet this week, and it’s already sent back some incredible images. The latest and greatest snapshot was taken during the rover’s gentle descent toward the dusty surface. NASA engineers have been hard at work, testing the various instruments and systems of the rover ahead of …
NASA’s years-long Perseverance program has just crossed a major milestone with a successful landing on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed just as NASA planned, and it goes without saying that the mission controllers and engineers were elated with the outcome. Now that the rover has landed, the fun stuff can begin, with scientific research and …
