This illustration shows NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, the second of the two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life. NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have...
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover uses an XRD instrument called CheMin to identify clay minerals on the surface at the landing site inside Gale Crater (Blake et al., 2013) and several martian surface missions have measured surface chemistry and this data was then used to infer mineralogy...
Rover instrumentationSpectroscopyMineralogyAstrobiologyThis work details the laboratory analysis of a suite of 10 samples collected from an inverted fluvial channel near Hanksville, Utah, USA as a part of the CanMars Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment (MSRAD). The samples were acquired along the ...
LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars 2020 rover, its latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, will include technology to explore ancient life on Mars, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday. The science goal of the Mars 2020 rover is to look for signs of a...
On January 25, 2004, NASA’s MER B (Mars Exploration Rover B) named Opportunity successfully landed at 1.95° S, 354.47° W on Meridiani Planum. After moving out […] Lunar & Planetary Missions, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing History, Spaceflight, Unmanned Spaceflight 1 Comment 1960s, 2000s...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars 2020 rover has successfully passed its first driving test, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday. A preliminary assessment of the rover's activities on Tuesday showed that it check...
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captured this panorama of a spot nicknamed Teal Ridge on June 18, 2019. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) On its way to its current outpost, the rover first passed over what Fox called a "parking lot full of gravel and pebbles," which were too small ...
It circled the rim for a few months, snapping pictures and getting a close look at the layered rocks surrounding the crater. NASA then made a gutsy decision in June 2007 to take Opportunity inside the crater. It was a risk, as it was unclear if the rover could climb out again, but ...
These pictures show the exact hill NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot may die upon A 3D illustration showing NASA’s Opportunity rover in Perseverance Valley on Mars. Seán Doran/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0); Business Insider A satellite orbiting Mars has taken a remarkable yet potentially somber ...
The nighttime events are among initial results from the InSight lander, which also found hints that the red planet may host a global reservoir of liquid water deep below the surface.