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31 Jul 2024

DNA: Signs of life found on Mars!

02 Jul 2023

NASA Re-Establishes Contact With Mars Ingenuity Helicopter

The Perseverance rover was at a different area from where the chopper had landed, thus the Ingenuity team anticipated the communications failure because of the slope that stood in the way.

20 Dec 2022

Read 10 AMAZING facts about NASA’s InSight Mars rover as it sends last message

NASA's Mars Rover InSight is going to turn off soon. It sent the last signing off message, making netizens' emotional. Here are 10 amazing facts about NASA's InSight rover.

16 May 2022

Strange 'doorway' spotted on Mars!

A perfectly carved out doorway seems to have been found on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.

16 May 2021

China becomes second nation to successfully land rover on Mars

China's uncrewed spacecraft Tianwen-1 successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday (May 15).

18 Apr 2021

Ingenuity Mars helicopter's first controlled flight scheduled for April 19

First flight of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter scheduled for April 19. Livestream to begin 6:15 am EDT (Eastern Time Zone).

14 Feb 2019

NASA bids adieu to Opportunity, the Mars rover that kept going and going

Engineers lost contact with the solar-powered vehicle on June 10 during a dust storm that encircled Mars.

14 Jun 2018

Unprecedented dust storm on Mars could spell death for NASA's oldest rover

NASA has declared a 'spacecraft emergency' due to the low levels of power.

01 Mar 2018

NASA's Curiosity rover tests new drill method on Mars

Curiosity has used its drill to collect samples 15 times since landing in 2012. Then, in December of 2016, a key part of the drill stopped working.

11 Aug 2017

NASA's Curiosity beams back most clear images of Martian clouds – Check it out!

The clouds in the new images are the most clearly visible so far from Curiosity, which landed five years ago this month about five degrees south of Mars' equator, NASA said.

06 Aug 2017

Five years of Curiosity: NASA goes back in time to celebrate Mars rover's anniversary - Watch

The droid, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars.

09 Jun 2017

NASA unveils 'out-of-the-world' Mars rover concept

NASA's next robotic Mars rover is set to land on the red planet in 2020. The rover will search for signs of past microbial life and collect core samples for a potentially future return to Earth.

Opportunity rover

25 Jan 2017

NASA's Mars rover 'Opportunity' enters its teenage years on Red Planet – Watch

Launched on July 7, 2003 as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, Opportunity landed on Mars' Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004.

European Space Agency

02 Dec 2016

Europe gives nod to 1.4 billion euros for Mars rover, ISS: European Space Agency

Europe has approved an extra 1.4 billion euros (USD 1.5 billion) today to resuscitate a life-seeking Mars rover project and keep its place on the ISS.

03 Oct 2016

Researchers reveal first Mars rover made in Mexico

The development team consists of nine engineering students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and one from the National Polytechnic Institute.

04 Aug 2016

Happy fourth, Curiosity: NASA celebrates rover's anniversary with new social media game!

4th August, 2016 marks Curiosity's fourth anniversary on the Red Planet and this evidently calls for a celebration, which NASA has wasted no time in doing!

15 Jul 2016

NASA's next Mars Rover discussion on Facebook Live

The scientists will talk about the significant step the agency is taking on Mars 2020's journey to Mars, proceeding with final design and construction of the robotic explorer, NASA wrote in a blog.

26 Feb 2016

See pic: NASA's Mars rover Opportunity scales challenging terrains!

Opportunity is NASA's senior rover, which has been on Mars for 12 years now.

18 Dec 2015

Curiosity spots loads of silica on Mars, bolsters water presence

Water that is acidic would tend to carry other ingredients away and leave silica behind.

17 Nov 2015

NASA's Curiosity rover eyes Mars' active dunes

No active dunes have been visited anywhere in the solar system besides Earth.

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