The float's Mars Helicopter took flight at the control of two drone pilots who were ... demonstrator to supporting the science mission of the on-going Perseverance rover by scouting the landscape ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

The images in the post match an authentic panoramic compiled from images captured by the NASA Mars Perseverance rover, a robotic mission launched in 2020. However, the purported fly is not in the ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission ... agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples ... its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by Perseverance back to Earth.

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 billion to around $7 billion.

The float was also decorated with "floralgraph" mission patches, including the emblems for NASA's Viking, Pathfinder and Perseverance (Mars 2020) missions, as rendered using flowers. The float's Mars ...