21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the ...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover reaches the “peak heating” phase of its descent...however, will look less like InSight’s than that of the Curiosity rover in 2012. While the Mars 2020 heat shield appears nearly identical to Curiosity’s, and matches its 4.5 ...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... the helicopter will reach the surface of the Red Planet, firmly nestled under the belly of the Mars 2020 rover. A few months later, it will be deployed and test flights (up to 90 seconds long) will begin - the first from...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Testing techniques There is a growing need to understand the budgets of different resources on the Moon, asteroids...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... and InSight lander – and in the clean rooms of JPL, where the upcoming Mars 2020 rover is taking shape." The final transmission, sent via the 70-meter Mars Station antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Complex in California, ended a multifaceted...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... one of the samples selected and cached on the surface by the Mars 2020 rover, a sample selected by a later robotic mission, or a sample selected during the Mars Base Camp telerobotic operations. Mars Base Camp architecture provides the crew with the...
