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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front of the sun. Phobos — one of Mars' two moons, along with the ...

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 ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19, 2022. Remember the nail-biting “seven minutes of terror” video in 2021 of NASA’s Perseverance rover parachuting onto Mars on a tether from its descent ...

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