NASA’s amazing Mars helicopter just set a new flight record
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has set a new flight record on the red planet. On its 59th flight just a few days ago, the drone-like machine reached an altitude of…
NASA’s amazing Mars helicopter just set a new flight record
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has set a new flight record on the red planet. On its 59th flight just a few days ago, the drone-like machine reached an altitude of…
Is that asteroid a problem? Meet the planetary defense squad that decides
NASA There are few cosmological concepts which have gripped the public — and Hollywood — more tightly than the idea of an incoming asteroid. Huge chunks of rock headed for…
NASA’s Mars helicopter glimpses Perseverance rover from the sky
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, captured an aerial image of the Perseverance rover during its latest flight at the end of last week. The aircraft and rover arrived together on…
NASA restores contact with Mars helicopter after nine weeks of silence
The last time NASA had contact with Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter was flying in the air on April 26. Ten weeks on, the Mars team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Check out the latest version of NASA’s slithering snake robot
NASA’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has offered a look at the latest version of its snake-like EELS robot (short for Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). A video (below)…
Watch a replica of NASA’s Mars helicopter take flight on Earth
Visitors to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California at the weekend got to see a life-sized replica of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter take flight. Ingenuity made history in…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a speed boost
While NASA’s newer Perseverance rover tends to get all the headlines these days, the Curiosity rover also continues to explore the surface of Mars more than a decade after it…
NASA’s plucky Mars helicopter eyes another flight record
NASA’s plucky Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, is about to embark on its 49th flight on the red planet. The diminutive drone-like aircraft arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February…
NASA’s Mars rover has just completed a historic task
Less than six weeks after it began the task, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed what the space agency is calling “humanity’s first sample depot on another planet.” The depot…