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…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover could soon be drilling rocks on Mars again. Engineers have been working for the past year to restore the rover’s full drilling capabilities, which were hampered in…
The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of…
In just a few years, NASA’s next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. A panoramic image that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge…
Exploration requires mobility. And whether you’re on Earth or as far away as The Moon or Mars, you need good wheels to get your vehicle from one place to another….
In just a few years, NASA’s next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars…
Color-discerning capabilities that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been using on Mars since 2012 are proving particularly helpful on a mountainside ridge the rover is now climbing. These capabilities go…
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity team is working to restore Curiosity’s sample-drilling capability using new techniques. The latest development is a preparatory test on Mars. The five-year-old mission is still several…
The Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE), an exciting concept which enables long duration in-situ mobility on the surface of Venus through robust mechanisms. An automaton is a mechanical device…
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun the steep ascent of an iron-oxide-bearing ridge that’s grabbed scientists’ attention since before the car-sized rover’s 2012 landing. + More Information
