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: Space Systems
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...
Chang’e 6 brought rocks from the far side of the
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June 2024. It’s moon lander, Chang’e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 kilograms) of rocks and soil. These samples came back to Earth on June 25, 2024. Chang’e 6 built off…
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…
We are getting back to Moon – With Moon Satellite Navigation System
These days we are standing before the next huge step in the Solar System exploration. And this next important step will be returning to the Moon.
LTC – Moon’s timezone
According to the memorandum published recently by the White House’s representative responsible for the science and technology policy, the Moon will have its time zone or better said – its own time.
New interactive mosaic to show Mars in vivid detail
Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
