14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... too low to continue recovery efforts," said John Callas, manager of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project at JPL. Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, seven months after its launch from Cape Canaveral...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for...
March 2016
Space for art
... of our solar system NASA’s Mars exploration programme seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among many...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... uneven distribution of torques between the wheels, the maximum operational speed (i.e., 2.5 cm/s for Curiosity and 5 cm/s for the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity), and the issues experienced by several rovers on past and present...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... mission is China’s second attempt to reach the Red Planet with a robotic probe, following the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars-exploration spacecraft. Yinghuo-1 was left stranded in Earth orbit after the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... samples and return them to Earth, so this landing site sets the stage for the next decade of Mars exploration. “The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion...
