Perseverance Mars Rover Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!) When NASA added a tiny four-pound helicopter as a stowaway to its Mars 2020 lander, it expected the helicopter to fly five very brief flights in the thin Martian atmosphere. Yet, Ingenuity would far surpass...
Mars Rover Pictures Delight, Puzzle NASA
While driving eastward toward the northwestern flank of “McCool Hill,” the wheels of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit churned up the largest amount of bright soil discovered so far in the mission. This image from Spirit’s panoramic camera (Pancam), taken on the rover’s 788th Martian...
The rover traveled nearly 330 feet (100 meters) during its three months on Mars, never going more than 40 feet (12 m) from the lander. The rover sent more than 550 pictures, and the lander more than 16,500 images. Many of these pictures went up in nearly real-time on the Pathfinder...
The panorama was made possible by one of the rover's wheels getting stuck pointed the wrong way, the robot equivalent of a sprained ankle, hence the nickname. A Nod to the Past (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.) The Opportunity team dubbed this fairly ...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has used the drill on its robotic arm to take 32 rock samples to date. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the robotic arm, provided the images in this mosaic. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...
This image is one of the very first sent home from Curiosity, showing the rover's own shadow on the Martian surface. NASA says that the clear dust cover is still on the camera, hence the dust seen around the edge of the fish-eye image. The photo was taken by one of the rover's ...
China's Zhurong rover successfully landed on Mars in 2021, and it has sent back beautiful pictures, and even sounds from the surface. Many other missions, both past and present, have revealed amazing insights about the planet's history, and future planned missions should help continue this ...
Zhurong has been working on the red planet for 54 Martian days and has traveled more than 300 meters. Since it drove onto Mars, the rover has been traveling south and conducting detections. Its navigation camera has captured the images of the landform along the way. ...
NASA's newest Mars rover is entering the final leg of its space cruise, with just over three months remaining until it touches down on the Red Planet. The hugeCuriosity roverlaunched in November and is slated to land at Mars' Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5. Curiosity's mission team...