NASA astronauts on Mars. Credit: NASA Mars is an obvious source of inspiration for science fiction stories. It is familiar and well-studied, yet different and…
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Recent graduate Showvik Haque (left) joked that Spencer Lab, home of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UD, is his “home.” He and fellow mechanical engineering…
Black Beauty. Martian meteorite NWA 7533 is worth more than its weight in gold. Credit: © University of Copenhagen/Deng et al. A meteorite that originated…
Depiction of the planet Mars and its retinue of Trojans circling around the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. The dashed curve traces the planet’s orbit.…
NASA’s Perseverance rover, shown in this artistic rendering, will land at Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021 and will start gathering soil samples soon after…
This image shows a triple crater in the ancient martian highlands. The largest crater measures 45 km across, and the smallest 28 km. There are…
Sometimes half measures can be a good thing — especially on a journey this long. The agency’s latest rover only has about 146 million miles…
[embedded content]This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is…
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…