Finally, at the start of 2004, the rovers reached Mars, along with a small armada of ... Mission scientists had chosen Opportunity's landing site on a dead-flat equatorial plain known as Meridiani ...

The Mars rover teams have the added challenge of a thin atmosphere that makes slowing the landers down even harder. There are many variables that affect how much a parachute can slow an object down.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front of the sun. Phobos — one of Mars' two moons, along with the ...

The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June last year and was declared officially dead on ... manager of the Mars Exploration Rover project.

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, China's Zhurong rover has discovered traces of ...