Ingenuity may never fly above the surface of Mars again, but the downed helicopter is otherwise healthy and could serve as a ...
Relying on remote data, including photographs taken after the flight, the investigators believe that “navigation errors ...
No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn't mean humans haven't left their mark — literally.
Some of the more notable debris on Mars includes pieces of the Viking landers, heat shields, pieces of insulation and, more ...
Massive sunspot AR3576 has been captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: ...
Another way to estimate how quickly craters fade has been by studying the ring of blast marks left by InSight’s retrorocket thrusters during landing. Much more prominent in 2018, those dark marks are ...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter — the first aircraft to fly on another planet — recently crashed due to a navigation glitch.
The data collected during these flights told us a lot about Mars, and how to navigate the challenges it presents for human ...
"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said ...
The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.
The Perseverance rover has reached the top of the Jezero Crater rim on Mars, a hike that rose 1,640 feet — higher than the ...
"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." ...