The Mars rover is rapidly closing in on the Red Planet with less than 640,000 miles to go as of Thursday morning. The NASA rover is targeting the Red Planet's Jezero Crater for its mission, in the ...
Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...
TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s newest rover, the massive Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, is less than two months away from plunging into the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet — a harrowing seven-minute ...