Business Insider India6 年
NASA's nuclear-powered Mars rover took an amazing selfie during an intense global dust storm
A nasty dust storm is wrapping around Mars, and visibility in some regions is so poor that the skies look like night during the middle of the day. It's a dire moment for NASA's Opportunity rover ...
Business Insider India6 年
NASA's longest-lived robot on Mars isn't calling home. Here's why there's a chance it could ...
A global dust storm on Mars is threatening the future of NASA's Opportunity rover, the longest-lived robot on that planet. The golf-cart-size vehicle launched toward Mars in June 2003, landed in ...
Space.com26 天
NASA's Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video ...
The ridge that Welch referenced has a slope of about 20 degrees, NASA officials said. It's also slippery, featuring loose sand and dust atop a brittle crust. "Mars rovers have driven over steeper ...
Space.com1 个月
To land safely on Mars and the moon, we may need to measure dust
Related: Massive Mars Dust Storm Won't Stop NASA's Next Lander The instrument ... In late 2022, scientists part of the Mars 2020 mission studied videos of six flights of the now-retired Ingenuity ...
Forbes2 年
Our ‘Marsquake’ Mission On The Red Planet Will Bite The Dust By Mid-July Says NASA
When NASA sent its InSight lander to Mars in 2018 it knew it may have to land during a dust storm. Its heat shield was thick to withstand being “sandblasted” by suspended dust and it had a ...
OTD In Space - November 13: Mariner 9 Becomes 1st Spacecraft To Orbit Mars
On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.