Researchers evaluating data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have found “wave ripples” in Martian ... on Mars in the past could help inform future missions’ selection of landing sites for ...

ispace is targeting a landing at Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold), located far north of the moon’s earth-facing side. The mission ...

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Pictured from top, main picture: the Dingo gap in Gale crater, which NASA's Curiosity rover crossed ... photographs the parachute used to slow its landing; a rocket-powered stage lowers ...

“We are exploring two new landing options. One is to leverage technology used for the Perseverance and Curiosity rover landings, and the other involves new commercial capabilities from industry ...

Mount Sharp rises from the middle of the crater – the green dot marks the Curiosity rover landing site in Aeolis Palus. Credit: NASA. John Grotzinger, a geologist at Caltech and former project ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected ... NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian surface. The second option would include a landing system developed ...

NASA has instead sent Perseverance to multiple spots around its Jezero Crater landing zone—a site that billions of years ago was an inland sea that may have hosted life. There the rover has ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...