No longer. The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have found direct and convincing evidence that water sometimes sloshed across Mars, almost certainly during the planet's earliest epoch well over ...
The American space agency says it is concerned but hopeful that its veteran robot rover on Mars can survive a big dust storm on the planet. The 15-year-old vehicle, known as Opportunity ...
NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just three weeks earlier.
With the successful landing of the Opportunity lander on Saturday (January 24), NASA is now suffering from a rare embarrassment of riches: two Martian rovers on the brink of exploring very different ...
After 15 years on Mars, NASA's Opportunity Rover sent its final images, capturing a tragic but beautiful farewell. From groundbreaking discoveries to a heartbreaking conclusion, this video takes ...
But after decades of study using orbiters, landers, and rovers, scientists have revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor microbial life beneath its rusty ...
NASA has revealed its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has made a 'successful' and exciting discovery. The National Aeronautics ...
For the second time in its career, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is hunkering down on the Red Planet and foregoing scientific operations as a dust storm whirls around the intrepid ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April ... as well as China’s Zhurong rover, which is now exploring Utopia Planitia. NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working years ago.
For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...
NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.
Arvidson has been a faithful attendant to the twin Spirit and Opportunity rovers since they landed on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004. They completed their primary missions in three months and ...