Twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover begins terrain tests
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving ...
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Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. ...
Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes
A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to ...
NASA sending Mars helicopter back to where it all started
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown for the 15th time on Mars, starting a journey back to its starting point ...
Sols 3287-3288: Assessing a New Potential Drill Target
After our short bump on Tuesday, Curiosity has reached a new potential drill location. When we first arrived at the ...
Flight #15 – Start of the Return Journey
With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back ...
Researchers begin to understand correlation of schumann resonances and dust storms on Mars
The interaction of dust particles in Martian dust storms may cause electric fields that are powerful enough to have charges ...
New Curtin study pinpoints likely home of Martian meteorites
Curtin University researchers have pinpointed the likely origin of a group of meteorites ejected from Mars, using a machine learning ...
Sol 3285: Oh So Close
The drive over the weekend was successful, gaining us more than 6 m in elevation - not bad for a ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight 14 Successful
The successful 14th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place shortly after 1:18 a.m. PDT Oct. 24 at Jezero ...