NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes were at […]
Category: Mars
A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?
National Air and Space Museum at 50 A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm… Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, […]
After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper
“I think the team has really experienced the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission.” The […]
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
“As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective,” NASA said in a press release. The spacecraft approached […]
One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions
“I think there’s plenty of fire lit under them already.” A rendering of Rocket Lab’s design for the Mars Telecommunications […]
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
Skip to content Testing shows rotor blades won’t disintegrate when they spin at supersonic speed. Artist’s illustration of the SkyFall […]
Here is NASA’s plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago. Artist’s illustration […]
Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars
There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater. When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed […]
Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy
This is important because it means these rocks were less likely to have been altered in a hydrothermal environment, where […]
Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
In this, Musk is starting to sound a lot more like Bezos when it comes to his vision for human […]