News Archive / Tagged: Mars

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 15th flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 13th, 2021

  NASA’s Mars Helicopter known as Ingenuity has begun to traverse its way back to the famed Wright Brothers Field on the Martian surface after completing its 15th successful flight.

• Mars helicopter tests higher rotor speed on latest flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 1st, 2021

  NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully made its 14th flight, testing a higher rotor speed in anticipation upcoming seasonal changes.

• 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 makes 12th flight from the Martian surface

  Matt HaskellAugust 23rd, 2021

  In yet another milestone, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th flight from the Red Planet’s surface on Aug. 16.

• NASA seeks volunteers for Mars simulation

  Laurel KornfeldAugust 18th, 2021

  NASA is seeking a crew of four volunteers for a year-long Mars simulation starting in the fall of 2022, one of several year-long simulations of life on the Red Planet organized by the agency's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog.

• Results from Mars InSight lander show Mars has a molten center

  Theresa CrossAugust 2nd, 2021

  Using data collected by NASA's Mars InSight lander, which has been on the red planet since 2018, researchers have confirmed the planet's center to be molten.

• NASA’s InSight Mars lander solar panels cleared of some dust

  Cullen DesforgesJune 18th, 2021

  NASA’s InSight Mars lander cleaned some dust off its solar panels using a counter-intuitive technique, which resulted in a boost in power production.

• 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 transitions to “operations demonstration phase”

  Cullen DesforgesMay 10th, 2021

  NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully took to the Martial skies for a fifth time, proving its capabilities as a fully-functioning aircraft.

• After flight 4, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter begins new demo phase

  Cullen DesforgesMay 3rd, 2021

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has once again proven itself to be the aeronautic showstopper of 2021 with its fourth flight above the Martian surface, setting the stage for a 30-day "operations demonstration" phase.

• 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.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time

  Cullen DesforgesApril 22nd, 2021

  After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.

• ‘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.

• Science journalist outlines challenges of settling the Moon and Mars

  Laurel KornfeldApril 16th, 2021

  Human settlement of the Moon and Mars will require overcoming numerous challenges, including living in low gravity and protecting people from radiation.