During the February 2021 landing of Perseverance, NASA’s newest Mars rover, the sky crane technology was even more precise: The addition of something called terrain relative navigation enabled ...

The sky crane system used on the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers is a challenging control system problem that piqued [Nicholas Rehm]’s curiosity. Constrained to Earth, he decided to ...

Like the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, the sample collection vehicle and Mars ascent vehicle could be landed on the surface by a “sky-crane,” a rocket-powered chassis that hovers about 20 ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with ...

These twilight clouds aren’t just a rare sight—they may be only capable of forming above specific regions of Mars. Both the Curiosity and Pathfinder rovers (respectively located above and ...

Perseverance, the Mars rover, plays a fundamental role in research on the Red Planet, with the primary goal of studying the planet’s geological past and paving the way for future manned missions.

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

"There are some instruments that just can't be miniaturized and sent to Mars." NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of ...