Perseverance’s giant ‘hand lens’ will scour Mars for signs of ancient life
Perseverance’s PIXL instrument will look for the textures of life in Martian rocks.
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11 eye-opening images from NASA’s Mars missions
As we look forward to what NASA’s Perseverance rover might accomplish, let’s look back on what we’ve already achieved on the Red Planet.
Hyundai’s walking concept car promises to go where other vehicles can’t
It would be a really cool way to get around the golf course, but it’s built tough enough that it could exist on another planet.
How NASA kept its Mars rovers alive long past their expiration dates
NASA engineer had to account for rough Martian weather and terrain when building the latest generation of rovers.
At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars
NASA’s “mole” probe that’s supposed to burrow into Mars’s soil has been stuck on the Red Planet’s surface for months. Now their final gambit—directly pushing the mole into the soil—has shown tentative signs of success, NASA announced Friday on Twitter.
These lunar rover tires mimic camel hooves for maximum traction on the moon
Bridgestone’s concept lunar rover tires are wrapped in steel wool and won’t go flat.
An experiment hinted at Martian life in the ’70s. So why did we stop looking?
When the Viking landers touched down on the Martian surface at the height of the Watergate scandal, they kicked up two clouds of rusty soil and a debate that would continue for more than four decades.
NASA’s plan to save its stuck Mars drill involves a robot with a shovel
A miniature jackhammer was supposed to be safely buried 15 feet below the Martian surface by now. Instead, it continues to languish near the surface, its nose nestled a foot underground while its tail pokes out two inches above the alien soil. Hundreds of millions of miles away, an international team of engineers has spent the spring and summer analyzing what stopped the digging instrument, nicknamed the “mole,” and improvising solutions to get it burrowing again.
Polaris built a lunar rover replica that can drive 60 miles per hour here on Earth
Modern off-road vehicle parts make this Polaris lunar rover replica from the Apollo missions fun to drive.
The Israeli moon crash reminds us that lunar landings are a pain in the butt
An Israeli lander crashed en route to the moon on Thursday, but this isn’t exactly a shocking failure.