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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Mars ... Perseverance Rover in 2020. A computer rendering, produced in collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California and the Ames Research Center, shows a ...

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 ...

Almost one year ago, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performed its final flight on Mars. The drone was designed only ... attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, aiming to complete just ...

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

The space agency is evaluating two options it hopes can simplify the mission and get it back on track for a return in the ...

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 ... the mission's execution. One option involves using the traditional landing method that successfully deployed NASA’s Perseverance ...