An identical version of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been taken for a spin in the Mars Yard, a dirt field that simulates the Martian surface. Skip to main content. Menu ...

NASA Returning to Mars With Tough Twin Rovers. By USHA LEE McFARLING . Aug. 11, 2000 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... “This is the SUV of Mars rovers,” said Steven Squyres ...

This summer NASA's two car-sized labs exploring Mars each discovered rocks that neither mission had seen before, revealing a more diverse history for the planet than previously thought. Three ...

ESA's rover twin, known as the Ground Test Model, had the chance to give its drill a workout in a test bed filled with rocks and soil layers. ESA released a video showing the drill at work.

NASA's twin robots are still motoring around Mars after two years. The golf cart-sized vehicles were only expected to last three months.

On July 4, 1997, a small rover named Sojourner landed on Mars as part of the Pathfinder mission. Twenty-five years later, we still remember its amazing contributions.

Like its predecessor and nearly identical twin Curiosity, which is still exploring a different crater on Mars, Perseverance has been variously described as the size of a Mini Cooper, a VW Beetle ...

Available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Wed Nov 23, "Good Night Oppy" tells the story of the Mars Exploration Rovers through the people who built, launched, and maintained them for 15 ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers on the Red Planet. The twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed in 2004 and lasted years beyond their expected 90-day ...