Today you can track the Perseverance Rover online while it trundles ... the mission from the control room when Viking 1 touched down on Mars. Soon after, the first images of the planet began ...

The team studying these sounds found that Mars' thin air, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, makes sound waves behave ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has been roaming the surface of our closest planetary neighbor for over four years now. During this ...

When you hear the words Mars rover, you probably picture one of the ... a dramatic and risky departure from the retro rockets the Viking landers had used to touch down on the Red Planet two ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," Schulze-Makuch wrote in the paper. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ...

The Viking 1 lander ... Perseverance was designed to explore Mars more autonomously than earlier rovers, which meant developing cameras good enough to support that capability, according to ...

landing its own rover, Zhurong, last year. Other Mars spacecraft have done amazing science from a standstill, such as the twin Viking landers in the 1970s that were the first to photograph the ...

In September 1976, the U.S. succeeded in landing a rover on Mars; NASA's Viking 1 and 2 rovers were the very first planetary "soft landings" (a non-impact landing with no damage).The Vikings ...

the Mars Phoenix lander discovered perchlorate ions in Mars soil. Two other missions, the Viking lander and the Curiosity rover, detected chlorinated hydrocarbons—possible byproducts of ...

NASA's Perseverance Rover recently spotted a shark ... In July 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was exploring Mars from orbit, taking pictures of the Martian landscape that would later be used ...