The rotorcraft provided rover scientists an aerial perspective of an interesting rocky outcrop.
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
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Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on...
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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Inventory of Key Life Ingredient on Mars
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Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks. Read More
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Tricky Terrain: Helping to Assure a Safe Rover Landing
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How two new technologies will help Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover yet, touch down onto the surface of Mars...
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NASA Marks 25 Years Since Pathfinder Touched Down on Mars
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The newly deployed Sojourner rover – the first of its kind on the Red Planet – sits on the...
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reveals Intriguing Terrain for Rover Team
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Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward. Read...
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NASA’s Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign
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The rover continues its hunt for rocks worthy of bringing to Earth for further study. Read More
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Flight 43 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 43 Flight date: No earlier than 02/11/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 1235.6 feet (376.56 meters) Flight time:...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reroutes Away From ‘Gator-Back’ Rocks
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To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. Read More