mars
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Things You Didn’t Know About NASA’s Mars Rovers
On July 4, 1997, a tiny, flat robot touched down on the surface of Mars and became the first wheeled vehicle to roam around on another planet. Since then, a fleet of Martian rovers have followed in the tracks of Sojourner and they have become bigger, better, and more autonomous over the years. Sojourner was…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again
RIP, Ingenuity, the first craft to fly on another planet.
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See a Rover’s Day on Mars in 10 Seconds
What were you doing on November 8, 2023? I couldn’t say for myself, but I can tell you what NASA’s Curiosity rover was doing: sitting still on its 4,002nd day on Mars, taking snapshots of the Martian surface. Now, mission team members at Jet Propulsion Laboratory have stitched together two series of frames from the…
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NASA ‘Pauses’ Mars Sample Return to Get a Grip on the Mission
NASA is pulling back from its Mars Sample Return program (MSR) in order to develop a revised way of bringing the Martian rocks back to Earth after its original plan was deemed unrealistic. During a meeting of the Planetary Science Advisory Committee on Monday, NASA officials announced that the space agency is pausing work on…