Here’s how it works. Spirit was one of two Mars rovers launched by NASA in 2003 as part of the $800 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. The rover arrived on Mars in January 2004 to ...

As Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, passed in front of the sun, it cast a lumpy, potato-shaped shadow on the sun’s face as well as on the Martian surface. The Perseverance rover, currently ...

Shutterstock Engineers follow events at Mars with a time lag of many minutes The landing architecture was a familiar one. The rover was encased in an aeroshell for the initial phase of the nine ...

The Perseverance rover captured an image of the stone with a unique, zebra-like pattern on September 13, 2023. The object, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May. That’s par for the course on the red planet, but there was something very different about this rock. It had a surprise inside ...

Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia ...