NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...
The road ahead will be even more scientifically intriguing, and probably somewhat easier-going, now that the six-wheeler has ...
Cosmic rays breaking down Martian biosignatures rapidly Salt-rich environments worsening radiation's effects European mission aims to drill deeper to bypass radiation ...
The investigation suggests that a failure in Ingenuity's navigation system led to a hard landing, causing the mission to end.
"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said ...
After over 70 flights, the Ingenuity helicopter — the first craft to ever make a powered, controlled flight on another planet ...
Ingenuity ultimately operated for nearly three years and performed 72 flights over that span. On its final flight, the helicopter climbed to 40 feet (12 meters) above the Martian surface, but after 32 ...
An image from the Perseverance rover of the Ingenuity helicopter and one of its blades (left) after its final landing. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS ...
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