Inevitably, Mars rovers or landers get covered with dust and the solar panels no longer function, ending the mission. Why doesn't NASA build in a mechanism to clean the solar panels? Mike ...
The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
Mars was once quite wet – this much is ... Because Opportunity functions from the energy received by its solar panels, the rover’s teams must position the intrepid little craft on north ...
Solar maximum only occurs approximately every 11 years. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter and Curiosity rover are being used to study the solar particles and radiation ...
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera on June 13, 2022 ... [+] (Sol 467) at the local mean solar time of 10:05:19. When Perseverance landed on Mars on ...