Due to the long round-trip times of any signals between Mars and Earth, development of the firmware that would control the rover was a major point, with the two teams occupied with the task each ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover.

An image of the Mars Perseverance rover released by NASA on February 24, 2021, has been altered and shared in online posts saying a fly was spotted on the vehicle and suggesting that NASA is ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float "Rover Rendezvous." NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first ...

Shutterstock Engineers follow events at Mars with a time lag of many minutes The landing architecture was a familiar one. The rover was encased in an aeroshell for the initial phase of the nine ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May. That’s par for the course on the red planet, but there was something very different about this rock. It had a surprise inside ...

13 (UPI) --NASA on Friday issued updates to its "Moon to Mars architecture," its exploration blueprint that includes ... up to 15,000 kg for elements like rovers or habitation modules.

Fossil ripple marks are the clearest evidence of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover ... [+] has ever found. Recent ripple marks as seen on Earth. "This is the best evidence of ...

It is possible that the Perseverance rover has already found signs of life on Mars in the Jezero crater lake samples. This will only be known once scientists return to Earth and examine the ...