The post Spectacular Night Skies Await The First Visitors To Mars, And Thanks To NASA’s Perseverance Rover, We’ve Got A Sneak Preview first on TwistedSifter. Day and night work very differently on ...

The Skyfall mission by NASA and Virginia-based AeroVironment plans to send six helicopters to Mars in one go, having all of them landing independently in different places. They will scout for spots ...

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

Following a short break for the July 4th holiday, Perseverance drove westward to a site called "Westport," where the ...

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Northrop Grumman has successfully ground tested the motor that could be used for the historic first orbital rocket launch from another planet. The solid rocket booster is intended to help return the ...

Following the first successful landing of an Earth-launched vehicle on the planet Mars—Viking I in July 1976—nine other ...

The Mars Perseverance Rover has made an unexpected discovery, capturing stunning images of the wreckage from its own descent vehicle, the Skycrane. This groundbreaking find unveils a hidden chapter in ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was designed and built by the Jet ...