09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... data show a successful drill hole, but no sample in the tube–something we’ve never seen in testing on Earth,” the Mars rover Twitter account said. To extract samples, a process which is autonomous from beginning to end, Perseverance uses a hollow...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
...time that Ingenuity has been on its own on the surface of Mars,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...said Teddy Tzanetos, deputy operations lead for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL. “Whatever the future holds, we...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
..., interim director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian rock and...excited and proud to see the system perform so well on Mars and take the first step for returning samples to Earth”,...
19 April 2021
Success for NASA as Ingenuity makes the first ever powered, controlled flight on Mars
...hours for data to be returned to the control room from Mars to learn whether the flight had taken place or not. ...have been thinking for so long about having our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is,” Aung said. “We will take a moment ...
13 February 2018
Martian meteorite to be used as target practice
...'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California - to serve as target practice for a high-precision laser on the rover's arm. Mars 2020's goal is ambitious: to collect samples from the red planet's surface and leave them ready for a future...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... in sealed tubes, and leave them on the planet's surface for potential return to Earth on a future Mars mission. The Mars 2020 project at JPL in Pasadena, California, manages rover development for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters...
