Success for Mars rover bag test
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Engineers test an airbag system that could be used to cushion a European rover's landing on Mars.
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NASA&#39;s robotic explorers are back at work on Mars following an extended siesta that had left mission managers with only hope and optimism that the rovers
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The Mars Rover mission continues for six more months as NASA is funding an extension. The project manager said the rovers are &quot;well past warranty&quot; but are showing few signs of wearing out.
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NASA has released an inventory of the scientific devices to be put on board the Mars Science Laboratory rover scheduled to land on the surface of Mars in 2009, NASAâs news release reads.
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After surviving near fatal dust storms on Mars, NASA&#39;s Opportunity rover is gearing up for its long-awaited trek inside an expansive crater on the red planet&#39;s surface.
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A remote Mars life-detection strategy is being tested in the fjords of Scandanavia, with a goal of eventually identifying even a single biological cell hiding in the rugged landscape.
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The final results of the Rover research will be reported next year, but a growing body of evidence shows that Mars had a great deal of water several billion years ago, about the same time life was emerging on Earth.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado-It has been a long, hard drive on Mars for NASA's Opportunity rover.
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The first tests on hi-tech equipment that will be used to provide data on the current state of Arctic ice are successful.
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NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments inside the giant crater a month after reaching the edge of the crevasse.
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Ten months after NASA&#39;s twin rovers landed on Mars, scientists reported this week that both robotic vehicles are still navigating their rock-studded landscapes with all instruments operating
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 7, 2004 - NASA&#39;s Mars rovers don&#39;t seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover, Opportunity, has discovered more evidence that water may have flowed over rocks on the Red Planet. Data sent back by Opportunity suggests an area known as the Meridiani Planum, was drenched
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The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will claim a place in history as tremendous successes. But to get the rovers ready for launch, mission team members had to push themselves to their limits. MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres explains how they handled the challenge.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF. - The Mars rover Opportunity is set to examine the heat shield that protected the robot as it plunged through the planet&#39;s atmosphere last January.
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The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
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The lame wheel on the NASA Mars rover Spirit has proven an invaluable science tool, turning up evidence of a once habitable environment, scientists said Monday.