American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...
The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.
Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.
Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover. The suit ...
To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...
On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire ...
Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...
NASA’s description of the image says it is "the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched ...
The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...
"Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving," Nelson said. As for Perseverance, the rover's ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it ... Got a puncture repair kit handy? While driving over the rocky, rugged Martian landscape, Curiosity has picked up ...
An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover. The ...