Take a walk on the dark side — of the moon.
Toyota partners with Japanese space agency on new moon rover design
After having conquered the automobile on Earth, Toyota has decided to try their luck off the planet.
Rumors of Opportunity’s death “very premature”, despite three-weeks silence
Hang in there, buddy!
Curiosity’s taking selfies as Opportunity braves the storm
Not all of NASA’s rovers are having a tough time.
Opportunity braves the worst sand storm it’s ever faced, might not make it
Come on Mars, why you gotta be like this?
NASA wants to send a tiny helicopter along with the next 2020 rover mission
It will allow scientists to explore Mars like they could only imagine until now.
NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars
Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.
NASA is taking a Martian meteorite back home — for calibration purposes
The meteorite will be used in NASA’s ambitious Mars 2020 mission.
NASA’s new 2020 rover will look a lot like Curiosity but with some important tweaks
Those are some big wheels to fill.
Curiosity’s wheel grousers show damage after five years of off-roading on Mars
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NASA creates computers that can survive on Venus, 30 years after the last landings
They’ll have to face boiling acids and extreme pressures.
NASA rover will investigate liquid-carved gully on Mars
The little rover that could.
China Unveils 2020 Mars Mission and Rover
The Chinese space program is taking huge strides forward.
NASA wants you to drive their Mars rover
The Red Planet at your fingertips.
China Rover Releases HD Pictures of the Moon
China’s National Space Administration released a trove of images from their lunar rover and they’re spectacular. We’re talking hundreds of tantalizing, HD and never-before-seen images of the Moon! You can set up an account on China’s Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration website and have a look for yourself, view and download all the pictures you like – but
Curiosity rover prepares for first contact with Martian rock
The moment many of us have been waiting for is almost here: Curiosity prepares to make its first contact with a Martian – a Martian rock, that is. The rover has been on the Red Planet for six weeks now, still preparing its devices, namely its Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) which will be used to analyze rock composition. Powered
NASA’s big rover on its long way to Mars
Following an absolutely perfect launch with no apparent problems whatsoever, NASA’s Curiosity rover has started its long way towards the Red Planet. Curiosity and Mars The car-sized rover blasted off Saturday at 10:02 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and separated from the rocket right on schedule, 45 minutes later. The pinnacle of technology in spatial rovers, Curiosity
Difficult decisions ahead for Mars exploration
The joint exploration by NASA and ESA, encompassing joint efforts from the American and European space agency seemed like a dream come true for astronomers from both sides. Especially after the European side designed and started building the Mars Rover, everything appeared to go in the right direction. But the issues NASA is facing at the moment will take their
Scientists propose one way trips to Mars
As any traveler surely knows, it’s always cheaper if you travel one way; especially if you go to Mars. Recently, two renowned scientists made a proposal that startled the whole scientific community: one way trips to Mars. The whole purpose would be to colonize the planet faster and more economically, pretty much in the way the first settlers came to
NASA Mars Rover gets smarter as it ages
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is already in its 7th year on Mars, and over the years it provided some quite useful information; researchers from NASA have been constantly working on ways to improve and optimize it by constantly uploading new software. Such is the case with the software they applied this winter, which makes it able to make its
