Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the ...

NASA Breaks the Sound Barrier With New Mars Helicopter Rotors

NASA’s new Mars helicopter rotors survived supersonic testing, boosting lift by 30% and paving the way for heavier, more ...
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Mars’ Southern Half Is Weirdly Warm Underground. The ‘Thermal Anomaly’ Might Explain Why the Planet’s Hemispheres Look So Different

Researchers used a novel technique to figure out what's going on inside the Red Planet. The work suggests that the interior ...

Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room

Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a ...

“Jellyfish” Spotted In NASA Mars Photo Sparks Frenzy As People Dig For Explanation

A bizarre jellyfish-like object captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover in 2023 has some people convinced that the tiny shape could be something far more mysterious. The strange figure appears on a distant ...
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Scientists Baffled by Bizarre “Anomaly” Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars

"Scientists usually assume that the interiors of planetary bodies are generally spherically symmetric, but this is not ...