The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen
Test flight on Mars will have wider benefits
NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet
National Aeronautics Space Administration newest Mars rover has sent back recordings of - bangs, pings and rattles- the first-ever sounds of driving on Mars
The timing is not a coincidence. It's driven by celestial mechanics. At their closest, the Earth (third planet from the Sun) and Mars (fourth planet) are "merely" 56-65 million km apart
Engineers wanted an unusual pattern in the nylon fabric to know how the parachute was oriented during descent. Turning it into a secret message was "super fun," he said Tuesday
The quality was so good - and the images so breathtaking - that members of the rover team said they felt like they were riding along
NASA's Perseverance rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet after traversing 472 million kilometres from Earth. The rover accomplished the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars. Watch the video for all the related information.
NASAs Perseverance rover has sent some stunning photos of the Red Planet, including a high-resolution colour selfie taken during its landing
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They showed that the conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been ubiquitous on ancient Mars
Planet Mars will be opposite and closest to the Sun in the sky on October 13.On that date, Mars will be at opposition -- opposite the Sun in the sky. Earth will be situated directly between Mars and the Sun. As a result, Mars will rise as the Sun sets and sets as the Sun rises, according to Sky & Telescope.Opposition -- the most significant Martian date on stargazers' calendars -- is also when the planet is at its brightest and near its maximum apparent size in telescopes. Because of the shapes and orientations of the planets' orbits, however, Mars and Earth were actually closest on Tuesday, October 6, separated by just 62 million kilometres, said Sky & Telescope.For Mars, it is more than 160 times farther than the Moon. The planet would not be this near us again until 2035.Mars oppositions occur at roughly 26-month intervals when Earth catches up to Mars as the planets circle the Sun.This year's opposition is special because it occurs close to when Mars reaches the point .
Dozens of controls on pop-up menus allow you to customize not just what you see - from faraway to right "on board" a spacecraft - but also how you see it
Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check
Using data from NASA's InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to the core of the red planet
A prototype of SpaceX's Mars Starship spacecraft got off the ground in a test flight, marking a small step that could one day prove to be a giant leap towards the human exploration of the Red Planet.
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth.
One of the boldest interplanetary missions, the Perseverance rover to Mars could pave the way for manned missions of the future
Eight spacecraft - American, European and Indian - are either orbiting Mars or on its surface with other missions underway or planned
Approved by Chinese authorities in January 2016, Tianwen translates to "questions about the heavens"