NASA hit a snag last year when the Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed on the Red Planet. The space agency concluded that the crash was caused by the vehicle's inability to discern flat ground from ...
It’s always good news when we hear about NASA’s “out-of-this-world” next steps toward building a replacement for Ingenuity, the small Mars helicopter-drone. With 72 flights over 1,004 days, Ingenuity ...
NASA is testing next-generation Mars drone tech in a place a lot like the Red Planet - California’s Mojave Desert in Death Valley National Park. They flew three research drones over the barren, ...
On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...
NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing ...
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...