Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...
NASA's Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it’s been exploring for the past year. The rover embarks on a journey to Mars' boxwork formation, ...
The rover arrived on Mars in January 2004 to investigate ... Spirit was still sitting in its landing shell when it spotted the first possible sign of water in the distance: carbonate, which ...
Landing missions ... the best (and worst) Mars landings of all time: Mars 2, a lander built by the former Soviet Union, has the double-edged distinction of being the first human-built object ...