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NASA’s InSight retracted its robotic arm on October 3, 2020, revealing where the spike-like “mole” is trying to burrow into Mars. The copper-colored ribbon attached…
Artist’s depiction of astronauts drilling for water on Mars during a future manned mission to the red planet. Credit: NASA Langley Advanced Concepts Lab/Analytical Mechanics…
Perseverance’s Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing the unexplored world that lies beneath the Martian surface.…
The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots,…
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars…
Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of Mars taken by the spacecraft’s high resolution stereo camera. Credit: Spacecraft…
Visible both in the inset photograph on the upper left and near the center of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in this illustration is the palm-size…
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover uses the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL). Located on the turret at the end of the rover’s…
“When you look at the team that put this robot together, and the team that put this launch vehicle together, that’s what they’ve done. They’ve…
Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion…
Technicians move a full-scale engineering version of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover into its new home — a garage facing the Mars Yard at the agency’s…
The Twin Peaks, which are modest-size hills to the southwest of the Mars Pathfinder landing site. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the…
Provides for local solar eclipses: The moon Phobos orbits Mars. Graphic: jihemD/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 NASA’s InSight mission provides data from the surface of…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the…
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30. NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System tool lets you track the…
This is an image of the ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere over the south pole. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen…
Five images taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched 15 years ago, on August 12, 2005. Along with being a…
This artist’s rendition shows how a Mars lidar could be deployed on a landed mission to Mars. Credit: NASA Insights and technology gleaned from creating…