OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving...
Read moreDetailsMars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests....
Read moreDetailsA radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface....
Read moreDetailsWe are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of...
Read moreDetailsWho hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well...
Read moreDetailsWhen the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in...
Read moreDetailsA team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to...
Read moreDetailsEvery time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its...
Read moreDetailsWe did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!" Tosol, Curiosity is...
Read moreDetailsChina's Mars orbiter entered its remote-sensing orbit around Mars on Monday, starting the global remote-sensing exploration of the planet, the...
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