Sounds of the Mars Helicopter’s whirring rotors add another new dimension to the historic project. For the first time, a spacecraft on another planet has…
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This color image was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its third flight, on April 25, 2021. The Perseverance Mars rover is visible in…
Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lowered MOXIE into the belly of the Perseverance rover prior to launch. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide…
[embedded content] In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on…
Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA The small rotorcraft’s “Wright brothers moment” is one Mars day away. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken…
One of the wind sensors aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover can be seen deploying from the mast in this image taken on Mar. 1, 2021,…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March…
The MEDLI2 hardware is visible on the Mars 2020 heat shield as the heat shield falls toward the surface of Mars. The critical MEDLI2 electronics,…
Illustration of the Mars Perseverance Rover using its SuperCam instrument to laser zap a rock in order to test what it’s made of. Credit: NASA…
This image was taken during the first drive of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The first trek of the…
The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Test. Test again. Test…
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute and back shell, heat shield, and descent stage, in…
This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together on…
This panorama, taken on February 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images…
In this illustration, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface as NASA’s Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Credit:…
The six-wheeled robot’s latest data since touching down yesterday include a series of images captured as the rover’s “jet pack” lowered it to the ground.…
The Mars 2020/Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Following touchdown, MOXIE will brew up oxygen while geologists comb for sediments to sample. On Thursday, NASA’s newest Mars…
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to…