Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...

NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

Artwork: Zhurong looks similar to Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles ... which has twice failed with landing attempts, will send a rover to Mars next year (in a joint project with the Russians).

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity's landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit ...

The launch in late 1996 of the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover then was exciting news indeed. Before Spirit, the exceptionally long-lived Opportunity, and the relatively huge ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS Holcomb, whose team authored the paper proposing a Mars catalog in Nature Astronomy this week, is most worried about sand dunes. "The Spirit Rover ...

According to the study authors, Mars has planet-wide sandstorms that can cover the entire globe and localized dust storms ...

Mars has global dust storms, which are unique. A single storm can literally travel across the entire globe. "On top of that, there are local dust storms. The Spirit Rover, for example, is right ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...