The Mars Perseverance Rover has made an unexpected discovery, capturing stunning images of the wreckage from its own descent vehicle, the Skycrane. This groundbreaking find unveils a hidden chapter in ...

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Finally, the $2.5 billion rover will be lowered to the surface on cables. When Curiosity's six wheels hit the red dirt inside Mars' huge Gale Crater, its "sky crane " descent stage will fly off ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission has reached another milestone with a successful separation test of the descent stage that will deliver the six-wheeled robot to the surface of the Red Planet.

At first blush, using a rocket-powered flying crane to lower a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered rover to the surface of Mars seems risky at best. But engineers say it solves a host of daunting challenges.

"Sky crane maneuver has started. about 20 meters above the surface," Mohan reported as the rover's descent neared its ... NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.

NASA has safely placed a variety of probes on Mars in the past, from the Viking craft in 1976 and the Phoenix lander in 2008 to three previous rovers (Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity).

This is what it looks like to land on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover took this video on February 18 as a jetpack lowered it onto the Red Planet’s surface.

But the Rube Goldberg-esque sky-crane delivery system is neither the most dangerous ... (EDL) of the Mars rover Curiosity is one of the most interesting aspects -- and certainly the most ...

In a technological tour de force, NASA's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover was lowered to the surface of Mars by a rocket-powered flying crane late Sunday to kick off a $2.5 billion mission.

NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life Seven minutes of terror: “Success depends on everything going right, down to fractions of a second” ...

The stunningly intricate series of maneuvers that will drop NASA's Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface Sunday looks pretty reasonable when you consider the alternatives, experts say.