On Feb. 18th, 2021 NASA will attempt to land the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet. To celebrate this effort NASA has created the Mission…
Category: Rovers
Meet NASA’s new Lunar Rover, “VIPER”: Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. VIPER will roam around The Moon’s south pole in search of water ice. + More Information about NASA’s VIPER…
The name was announced Thursday by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Zurbuchen was at the…
Engineers attached NASA’s Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover today in the Highbay 1 Clean…
K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and home schools can enter the Mars 2020 “Name the Rover” essay contest. One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited…
Check out the Mission Overview of the Mars 2020 Rover: NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover is currently being built at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility (SAF) cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Would you like to send your name to Mars with the 2020 Mars Rover? NASA is giving the public the opportunity to send their names – stenciled on chips –…
Since June 10, 2018 NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been silent. The solar powered rover has been unable to receive enough energy due to a planet wide dust storm….
Want to build your own six wheeled rover like the ones on Mars? NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created the “Open Source Rover Project” which provides the plans for anyone to…
During Sol 2138-2140 The Mars Curiosity successfully drilled a hole within the Pettegrove Point Member on the Vera Rubin Ridge. For now the team will focus on observations of the…
