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Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
NASA has successfully touched down on Mars nine times, relying on cutting-edge parachutes, massive airbags, and jetpacks to set spacecraft safely on the surface....
The rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying.
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the “sulfate-bearing unit,” a long-sought region of...
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express orbiter has been in operation since January 2004.
It not only has an eye for the Red Planet, but...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on...
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscape there and if it is...
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.
NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead,...
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than...
A group of 20 young students who have shown the character trait that NASA’s Perseverance rover is named for received messages of encouragement directly from that six-wheeled scientist on Mars.
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got...
The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build...
It was a great pleasure for our SpaceQuip Journal team to take part to the virtual press conference organized by NASA and DLR on Antarctica Plant Research: NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek, introduced us to this successful test run...
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