Tagged: rover

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found a new route to some interesting rocks after its original path proved too difficult to traverse. Scientists want the car-size Curiosity rover to check out a “geological contact” where two different rock units meet. Curiosity tried to reach such...

It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have to send robots to Mars? Mars, after all, is the planet that most closely resembles Earth — that is, if Earth had an...

NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is weathering a monster dust storm that has plunged its environs into permanent darkness. That darkness has prevented the solar-powered Opportunity from charging its batteries sufficiently, and the rover has fallen silent as a result. Still, mission team members expressed...