News Archive / Tagged: Mars

• 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.

• 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.

• Ingenuity helicopter deployed onto the Martian surface

  Cullen DesforgesApril 5th, 2021

  NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the surface of Mars for the first time after being deployed from underneath the Perseverance rover.

• Mars and Titan: Two very different potentially habitable worlds

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 23rd, 2021

  Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan are at the forefront of the search for habitable solar system worlds, but they are very different from one another in terms of the presence of liquid, temperature variations, and the presence of organic compounds, planetary scientist Vincent Chevrier of the University of Arkansas noted in a March 12 online […]

• 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.

• Perseverance mission scientist outlines rover’s instruments, mission

  Laurel KornfeldJune 23rd, 2020

  One month before the scheduled launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, Roger Wiens, who serves as both principal investigator of its SuperCam laser instrument and as co-investigator of its SHERLOC team, discussed the mission’s science instruments and its purpose in a virtual webinar presented by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI).

• Curiosity mission team operates rover from home

  Jim SharkeyMay 13th, 2020

  While the majority of scientists and engineers who work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California are currently off-site, that doesn’t mean that their work supporting interplanetary missions has ground to a halt.

• Mars’ magnetic field is 10 times stronger than previously thought

  Laurel KornfeldApril 14th, 2020

  Data collected by NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander on Mars has surprised scientists by indicating the Red Planet has a magnetic field 10 times stronger than previously suspected.