Why NASA is trying to crash land on Mars
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. NASA has successfully touched ...
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NASA's Mars mission shields up for tests
Micrometeorites are a potential hazard for any space mission, including NASA's Mars Sample Return. The tiny rocks can travel up ...
NASA's InSight waits out dust storm
NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent drop in power generated by ...
A broken rock won't break our Team
Last week, Perseverance attempted an abrasion on the Chiniak target at Enchanted Lake. Scientists and engineers worked together to plan ...
Once upon a rover
Once upon a time - early 2013 - there was a small corner room in the Flight Projects building at ...
Virtual hiking map for Jezero crater, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site
Prospective Mars explorers can now take a hike around the landing site of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover with an ...
Number of ancient Martian lakes might be dramatically underestimated
Lakes are bodies of water fed by rainfall, snowmelt, rivers and groundwater, through which, Earth is teeming with life. Lakes ...
Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer ...
The Perseverance robotic arm tightrope of abrasion proximity science
The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ...
Perseverance investigates geologically rich Mars terrain
The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and is ...