The Mars 2020 mission, including the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, launched to space on July 30, 2020 and is scheduled to land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. See the different components of the rover, the evolution o
In the “people and pets” section,NASA’s Ingenuity helicopterpops up, as does Curiosity,NASA’s other functioning Mars roverthat landed on the red planet in 2012. Perseverance is continuing to explore insideJezero Crater, an ancient lakebed that scientists believe could contain signs of past l...
This new image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan....
China’s Zhurong rover has been snapped by powerful cameras aboard several spacecraft circling Mars. One of the images — a high-resolution colour shot (above) taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — offers scientists an extremely detailed view of the landing site....
On May 15, 2021, the lander, carrying the Zhurong rover, touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. A week later, Zhurong separated from the lander and started exploring the red planet, making China the second coun...
signs of briny water,avalanches and active seasonal changes such as dust storms and dunes.NASA's HiRISE camera pans over large swaths of Mars' surface.It occasionally discovers surprises like this towering dust devil,which was captured from 185 miles (297 kilometers) above the ground.(NASA JPL...
View from lifeguard tower onto the beach with beach chairs. Binz on the island of Rügen Holiday homes in Binz on the island of Rügen on the Baltic Sea. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Old broken tree in the forest. The dangerous part of the forest Beach chairs with the inscr...
On Mars, the evidence for life could be concealed in rocks that resemble some of Earth's most extreme environments. Scientists from the SETI Institute will spend five years exploring these unusual geologic sites to learn where and how to look for life. Chile's Licancabur volcano, seen here,...
Mars Photos app is a demo app that shows actual images of Mars' surface. These images are real-life photos from Mars captured by NASA's Mars rovers. The data is stored on a Web server as a REST web service. This app demonstrated the use of Retrofit to make REST requests to th...
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