Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

On Sols 4575 and 4576 of its mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover reached what its team is calling one of the most stable and ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

This interplanetary navigation by rover drivers comes at an uncertain moment for NASA’s Mars program. Perseverance has been gathering and stashing small tubes of Martian soil and rocks for ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover's ...

The wheels also have grousers (treads) that protrude 7.5 millimeters from the wheel skin. Since touching down inside Mars’ Gale Crater 12 years ago, the rover has traveled around 20 miles (32 ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...

After more than 12 years exploring Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has tired feet — err, wheels. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

However, new photos taken by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) and released by NASA on Sept. 24 reveal that the rover's epic journey has taken a toll on the robot's middle right wheel.

NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it’s been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it’s traversed more than 20 miles of the ...

Since landing in 2012, the Curiosity rover has been roaming around Mars trying to discover if the planet could have ever supported microbial life. Now, NASA has shown the damage it has picked up ...