The Perseverance Rover ... allow the parachute to slow the spacecraft from its travelling speed of 20,000km/h (13,670mph) (16 times the speed of sound) for a "soft landing" on Mars.
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.
Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the ... is also too thin to rely on parachutes alone to slow down and create a safe landing. For the deployment of the ...
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
Landing humans ... to date has been the Mars Science Laboratory with the Curiosity rover. It delivered roughly one metric ton (MT) to the surface through the use of an ablative heat shield for ...