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 ...

In all, 19 lander/rover ... landing site from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – allowing controllers the chance to upload last-minute tweaks to the timing of InSight’s parachute ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars ... rely on parachutes alone to slow down and create a safe landing. For the deployment of the hefty car-size rover Curiosity ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.

Perseverance’s parachute and backshell on the ... mementos of its dramatic entry, descent and landing on Mars. It’s not the first rover to do so, with NASA’s Curiosity identifying bits ...

UK engineers will design a robot that can retrieve rock samples on Mars so ... and the fetch rover needs to be delivered to JPL to be integrated with the ascent vehicle and landing mechanism ...

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China's space agency has released video of its Zhurong rover trundling across the surface of Mars. The pictures were ... also includes sequences from Zhurong's landing in May, showing the deployment ...