The chief scientist of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material stored in the rover’s sample tubes, dropped both on the surface of Mars and in the rover itself while orbiting Jezero Crater. Given the Martian samples Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those be what the rover was meant to look … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter achieved many milestones during its 72 Red Planet flights. As a technology demonstrator Ingenuity was tasked with performing up to five flights over the course of 30 Earth days. But from its celebrated maiden voyage on April 19, 2021, to its final air voyage on January 18, 2024, Ingenuity continued to … Read more
Nearly three years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars as part of a decades-long effort to investigate whether the now barren planet once hosted life. Jezero crater once housed a large lake and a river delta. The size of a car Perseverance, equipped with advanced cameras and scientific instruments, has so far spent its … Read more