Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover
Have you ever had a chance to turn around the Curiosity rover and look around on its wheels, body, arm, mast, etc.?
Category: Mars
Mars GNSS & Moon GNSS
Press release December 07, 2024. So far, we know only about one planet in our Solar System, where life is confirmed. The mentioned planet is our home – the Earth. But there is also...
NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time
Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shapes sprawled across the southern hemisphere of Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock
In one scenario the Perseverance science team is considering, Cheyava Falls was initially deposited as mud with organic compounds mixed in that eventually cemented into rock. Later, a second episode of fluid flow penetrated fissures in the rock, enabling mineral deposits that created the large white calcium sulfate veins seen today and resulting in the…
Here’s How Curiosity’s Sky Crane Changed the Way NASA Explores
Twelve years ago, NASA landed its six-wheeled science lab using a daring new technology that lowers the rover using a robotic jetpack. NASA’s Curiosity rover mission is celebrating a dozen years on the Red Planet, where the six-wheeled scientist continues to make big discoveries as it inches up the foothills of a Martian mountain. Just…
Sounds on Mars vs Earth
I had been looking for something on the web and fond this nice video. I recommend you to watch it. Some time ago, I wrote an article about the same topic, but here you...
Mars, the red planet: Facts and information
Once upon a time, though, wind and water flowed across the red planet. Robotic rovers have found clear evidence that billions of years ago, lakes and rivers of liquid water coursed across the red...
Odyssey captures huge volcano
The recent horizon imaging was conceived as an experiment many years ago during the landings of NASA’s Phoenix mission in 2008 and the Curiosity rover in 2012. As with other Mars landings before and...
