Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the ...

Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room

Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a ...
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UI researcher finds gemstones on Mars using NASA rover

A planetary geologist from the University of Iowa is part of a team using one of NASA’s rovers on Mars that’s found the ...
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Two rovers, two sides of Mars. See NASA's side-by-side comparison

NASA has two car-sized vehicles on the ground exploring areas of Mars's surface that are billions of years old. But the similarities of the landscapes through which both the Curiosity and Perseverance ...
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NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, which is currently housed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...