NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is getting ready for its big launch day, when it will become the envy of all and leave this cursed Earth behind. But before it can get its ass to Mars ...

we were asked to accommodate this little thing called the Mars helicopter," Wallace said in the pre-launch briefing. "We had to do a little bit of a magic trick to get that one on the rover.

It needed just one more round of testing before it would be ready for launch. NASA officials said that instead, the finished rover would be ... more interest in Mars than the moon, everything ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars. As shown in the imagery below, the NASA robot investigated dried-up lake beds and captured views of ...

Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert ... In November 2022, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged the Amapari Marker Band in the foothills of Mount Sharp, located in Gale Crater.

The mission is expected to launch no earlier than September ... 25 tons of supplies awaiting them on Mars, which will have been delivered by a prior rover mission. And for any extended missions ...

But there is good news coming from the small Mars rover Curiosity. A new study using imagery from the rover shows evidence that the red planet once may have been pretty hospitable, even habitable.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover discovered symmetric ripple marks at two separate spots within the Red Planet’s Gale Crater — offering strong evidence that Mars was flowed with open, liquid water.

"The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. "These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. "If those landings go ...

Mars had a vast ocean with ancient beaches, suggests data from China's Zhurong rover. (artist's ... [+] Impression of a rover on the surface of Mars). Mars was once home to a vast ocean ...

NASA has confirmed that the Curiosity rover has found compelling evidence that there were ponds and lakes on the surface of Mars in ancient times. Apparently, the information suggests that ripples ...

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.