Tagged: rover

A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite image or two from their mission. For Apollo 8’s Bill Anders, it was a...

A new paper enriches scientists’ understanding of where the rock record preserved or destroyed evidence of Mars’ past and possible signs of ancient life. Today, Mars is a planet of extremes—it’s bitterly cold, has high radiation, and is bone-dry. But billions of years ago, Mars...

Images snapped on July 5 by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented opportunity to scout out the road ahead. Ingenuity provided new insight into where different rock layers...

New video from NASA/JPL-Caltech – released February 22, 2021 – shows the view from the Perseverance rover itself, as it touched down in Mars’ Jezero Crater last week. The rover’s flashy new cameras delivered this rover’s-eye view of the landing process … and isn’t it...

There’s been a lot of focus this month on NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance and its adorable sidekick, the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, whose first flight has now been postponed to no earlier than next week. But meanwhile, the Curiosity rover – which has been...

Science Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canada plans to land a rover on the moon in the next five years. The Canadian Space Agency says the unmanned robotic vehicle will aim to gather imagery and measurements on the moon’s cratered surface, showcasing technologies from Canadian companies...

In less than two months on the red planet, the most advanced rover ever has already sent back more than 16,000 images. We show you the best so far. The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sent back its first image, a tiny thumbnail of its landing...

Seven months after blast-off, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will have to negotiate its shortest and most intense phase on Thursday: the “seven minutes of terror” it takes to slam on the brakes and land the Perseverance rover on a narrow target on the planet’s surface....

NASA’S latest Mars rover has captured rare footage of a “dust devil” skittering across the planet’s surface. The extra-terrestrial twister was picked up by one of Perseverance’s 19 onboard cameras in video shared by Nasa on social media this week. “You can see it in...

NASA’s newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever recording of driving on the Red Planet – and it features a mysterious “scratching” noise that’s left scientists baffled. The audio clip also includes the eerie sound of grinding, clanking and banging that by Earth standards...