With its recent 17th flight, the Red Planet rotorcraft reaches an airborne milestone the team never considered achievable. Its 18th flight is scheduled for no earlier than today.
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NASA’s Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Collier Trophy
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The first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet has garnered an award whose past recipients make...
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
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The agency’s newest rover captured first-of-its kind footage of its Feb. 18 touchdown and has recorded audio of Martian...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars’ Surface
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The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for...
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What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars
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A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on...
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Flight 64 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight 64 Expeected flight date: 10/27/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 408.435 meters Expected flight time: 124.5 seconds Flight...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain
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The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and...
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Take a 3D Spin on Mars and Track NASA’s Perseverance Rover
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Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard the rover and orbiters...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Patches of Rock Record Erased, Revealing Clues
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A new paper enriches scientists’ understanding of where the rock record preserved or destroyed evidence of Mars’ past and...
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