News Archive / Tagged: Mars 2020

• First Perseverance rover Mars rock samples suggest Jezero Crater was once habitable

  Laurel KornfeldSeptember 23rd, 2021

  The first Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover for eventual return to Earth suggest landing site Jezero Crater harbored water for a long enough time to be habitable for microbial life.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter breaks records with 9th flight

  Cullen DesforgesJuly 8th, 2021

  The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that has proven itself to be the star of the Perseverance mission recently made its ninth and most daring flight to date.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 7th flight

  Cullen DesforgesJune 9th, 2021

  Fresh off of a recent in-flight anomaly, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully completed its seventh flight across the surface of the red planet.

• NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight

  Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021

  On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter experiences turbulent sixth flight

  Cullen DesforgesMay 27th, 2021

  After five near-flawless flights, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter ran into trouble during its sixth, testing the margins of the spacecraft’s stability.

• Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’

  Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2021

  Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.

• ‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars

  Cullen DesforgesApril 19th, 2021

  With NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, history has been made as humankind made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.

• Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021

  History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.

• Engineers detail plans for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Michael McCabeMarch 24th, 2021

  Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover is safely on Mars, all eyes are shifting toward the deployment of a small technology demonstration, a drone-like helicopter called Ingenuity.

• Perseverance rover begins driving across the surface of Mars

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 13th, 2021

  In the weeks since Perseverance landed on Mars, the images, science and sounds that have come from the mission have proven to be groundbreaking.

• Perseverance rover transmits ‘iconic’ video from Mars

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 22nd, 2021

  NASA has released never-before-seen video from Mars — the highly-anticipated views of the Perseverance rover from multiple entry, descent and landing cameras.

• Touchdown confirmed!: Perseverance rover lands on Mars

  Cullen DesforgesFebruary 18th, 2021

  After a long flight originating in Florida, Mars has gained another robot resident with NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landing in Jezero crater.

• Perseverance rover launches on its journey to explore Mars

  Matt HaskellJuly 30th, 2020

  CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – At 7:50 a.m. EDT, the ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off on its journey to Mars with NASA’s Perseverance rover, and Ingenuity helicopter.

• NASA, ULA on the eve of launch of Perseverance Mars rover

  Matt HaskellJuly 29th, 2020

  Years of hard work and preparation have culminated in NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, sitting  atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, set to leave Earth as early as 7:50 a.m. EDT (11:50 UTC) Thursday morning.

• Mars 2020 Flight Readiness Review complete, Launch Readiness Review tomorrow

  Theresa CrossJuly 26th, 2020

  Preparations continue at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the upcoming Mars 2020 launch, currently scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Most recently completed was the Flight Readiness Review, the critical review step which confirmed the readiness of the equipment, teams and resources required […]