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…
This team of legged robots could be the future of Mars exploration
ETH Zurich If you’d been a fly on the wall at the Rockhal concert hall in Luxembourg in September 2022, you’d have been greeted by a strange sight: no bands…
Perseverance rover’s Mars oxygen machine comes to the end of its mission
The experiment to make oxygen on Mars has come to an end, with the Perseverance rover’s MOXIE instrument completing its mission. MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is…
MOXIE, NASA’s Oxygen-Producing Experiment on Mars, Ends Operations
On April 20, 2021, the spiritedly-named MOXIE experiment on Mars extracted 5 grams of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, demonstrating a potential future capability of an established human presence on…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter reaches flight milestone
There’s just no stopping NASA’s plucky little Mars helicopter. During its latest airborne adventure — its 57th on the red planet since April 2021 — Ingenuity reached a total flight…
NASA’s Perseverance rover shows off its latest Mars find
NASA’s Perseverance rover is continuing to explore Mars’ Jezero Crater in its search for evidence of ancient microbial life on the distant planet. The vehicle — NASA’s most technologically advanced…
How Many People Does It Take to Start a Colony on Mars?
It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet,…
See Ingenuity helicopter take to the air in video captured by Perseverance rover
NASA has released a video taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars that shows its companion, the helicopter Ingenuity, in flight. Ingenuity performed a short flight into the air and…
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’s InSight Detects Shorter Martian Days With Steadily Increasing Spin
Data collected by the InSight Lander on Mars before its untimely demise this past December may have revealed some of the planet’s curious behavior. Scientists studying Mars recently revealed that…