Further speculation on the site has come from a2015 “Ask Me Anything” with NASAteam members in which NASA Mars Program Office Chief Scientist Rich Zurek said it was possible that “icebows” could appear on Mars, because while there are no water droplets, snow has been observe...
This system compares onboard maps to what the lander’s sensors see in real time, to show the spacecraft its location and help it avoid hazardous geology during its autonomous landing.Then the skycrane, a sort of hovercraft hooked to the top of the rover, would fire up its eight downward...
This photo provided by SpaceX shows a prototype of its Mars ship, Starship, is launched on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2020 in south Texas. Tuesday night's flight lasted barely 45 seconds, but was an important first for SpaceX's Starship. SpaceX chief Elon Musk tweeted: “Mars is looking ...
Many of these pictures went up in nearly real-time on the Pathfinder/Sojourner website, making use of the Internet at a time when interest in the technology exploded among the public. NASA published updates from the mission several times a week. What's more, the agencystill preserves the w...
Still, the Red Planet's interior structure has always remained in the realm of speculation and estimates. Now, data sent back by a NASA lander has given us the first real look at what the planet's interior is like. NASA's InSight lander touched down near...
This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell University Project managers were ecstatic with the initial results from Spirit's Pa...
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) For twelve years, we've watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian environment. The Mars rover, built by NA...
Clouds Over Mount Sharp:This GIF shows clouds drifting over Mount Sharp on Mars, as viewed by NASA’s Curiosity rover on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Each frame of the scene was stitched together from six individual images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter zipped near Mars in 1976 and took this now iconic image of the surface. What got everyone excited is the face-like formation in the upper center of the picture. If you have a creative mind, it's easy to see it as having two eyes, a nose, a mouth and a ...
Sid is located in this stretch of the Jezero Crater, an area that NASA has dubbed "Santa Cruz."Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Just another rocky day on the Red Planet for NASA. A new batch of photos from the space agency's Perseverance rover introduces us to "Sid," the latest Mars rock ...