Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began ... company solicitations to land the fetch vehicle and ascent vehicle on Mars, taking advantage of competitive pricing that could ...

The NASA Perseverance rover has been ... rovers still exploring Mars. The second will utilize new commercial capabilities and partners to deliver a “heavy-lift vehicle” lander, such as designs ...

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first-ever signs of alien life, but NASA is scrambling to figure out how it will bring them back to Earth for ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

NASA's mission is to return ... on the planet surface instead of on the return vehicle, and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to transfer the samples to the Sample ...

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To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. Future human explorers on Mars may one day gaze at the red planet’s clouds.

Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by NASA's Perseverance rover, could reveal a ... that sports a small rocket called the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). The lander will touch down ...