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 ...
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 ...
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 ...