After working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop a robot arm for the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover, Motiv Space Systems is developing durable, multi-jointed limb also capable of ...

Vandana Verma remembers seeing the picture of the Perseverance rover and its smaller companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, on the Martian surface for the first time — a little family photo of two ...

On February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars packed with a unique set of scientific tools to look for signs of ancient microbial life. NASA previously sent four rovers to Mars, but ...

Although Perseverance has a collection of instruments to analyze samples on Mars, getting those tubes back to Earth would ...

Huge news: NASA confirmed that its Mars-rock-scooping robot, Perseverance, has at long last managed to scoop up some Mars rocks. That also means that the rover has started to conduct some rudimentary ...

One of the more ambitious things the Perseverance rover currently exploring the surface of Mars has been doing is gathering samples of Martian rocks and soil, setting them aside for a future mission ...

It's been one year since a nuclear-powered, one-armed, six-wheeled robot punched through the Martian atmosphere at a blazing 12,000 miles per hour, and a supersonic parachute slowed it way down until ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently paused on a lengthy climb to look back upon the vast crater where it landed more than three years ago to begin scouring Mars for signs that the planet was once ...

NASA expected its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, to last for five flights. It's now flown a whopping 54 times. The space agency released footage from the small experimental robot's early August journey ...

Santa Monica College’s John Drescher Planetarium continues its Friday evening events in winter 2025 with free, live virtual shows presented online at smc.edu/planetarium. The winter shows will explore ...

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