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Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?
In an unexpected turn of events, NASA’s Curiosity rover has cracked open a rock on Mars, uncovering something so surprising ...
Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...
The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...
The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...
On Sols 4575 and 4576 of its mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover reached what its team is calling one of the most stable and secure locations of the entire expedition on Mars. According to NASA’s official ...
So the only way for Curiosity to be lowered to the surface was using a rocket-powered sky crane, which itself had to be deployed seamlessly midway during the mission's descent through the Martian ...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the blast zone created by the Curiosity rover's sky crane descent stage as it appeared in August 2012, just after Curiosity touched down.
At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars. To mark the 12th anniversary, NASA has shared a video (below) in which members of the ...
Today NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 10 years on Mars, and it’s still going strong since its landing on August 6, 2012. As the first of a new design of Martian rover along with Perseverance ...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the red planet, a secret code was revealed in the parachute. Meet Ian ...
Then, the famed sky crane maneuver that landed the Curiosity rover will occur. Nylon cords will lower the rover 25 feet below the descent stage.