NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Images of China’s Rover From Space
China’s Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the…
China’s Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the…
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location….
It takes a team to plan Perseverance’s daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or…
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations. NASA…
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was recently…
Meet Angie Jackman, the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle. Right now, some…
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars’ Jezero Crater called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day,…
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidizing material could be sufficiently reactive that they…
When the Perseverance rover finishes a drive and is exploring a new location, you may see it create a round, shallow hole in a nearby…
Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Séítah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater…
The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of Mars. While the object in question looks like a…
The Ingenuity team is beginning preparations for Flight 20! Flight 19 was successfully completed on February 7, 2022, at 20:21 PST (Sol 345 of the…
What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while every Sol is different, each…
The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently…
Chaotic mounds, wind-sculpted ripples and dust devil tracks: this image shows a fascinating and otherworldly landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars’ southern highlands. The image…
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels, and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a relatively small area in this…
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with…