rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along ...

European aerospace giant Airbus has taken two of its Mars rovers out for field tests in a quarry near London, showcasing for the first time a new robotic arm for autonomous sample collection on ...

One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander to touch down near the rover, use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

The latest evidence comes from an instrument called SHERLOC mounted on the six-wheeled rover’s robotic arm that enables a ... of life past or present on Mars, and that non-biological processes ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

A mad dash, by Mars rover standards. (The one-day distance record ... It is bristling with instruments, including cameras and an all-purpose robotic arm. It can drive backward.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover. The suit ...